Growing weed, producing knowledge an epistemic history of Arabidopsis thaliana

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-224

  Leonelli, Sabina ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Materially; Model organism; Modelling; Plant biology; Standardisation

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; RESEARCH;

ARABIDOPSIS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RESEARCH;

EID: 44649111850     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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