AUTHOR=Strazzer Pamela , Verbree Bets , Bliek Mattijs , Koes Ronald , Quattrocchio Francesca M. 

TITLE=The Amsterdam petunia germplasm collection: A tool in plant science

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science

VOLUME=14

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1129724

DOI=10.3389/fpls.2023.1129724

ISSN=1664-462X

ABSTRACT=<p><italic>Petunia hybrida</italic> is a plant model system used by many researchers to investigate a broad range of biological questions. One of the reasons for the success of this organism as a lab model is the existence of numerous mutants, involved in a wide range of processes, and the ever-increasing size of this collection owing to a highly active and efficient transposon system. We report here on the origin of petunia-based research and describe the collection of petunia lines housed in the University of Amsterdam, where many of the existing genotypes are maintained.</p>