The thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana is increasingly popular among plant scientists: it is small, easy to grow, and makes flowers, and the sequence of its small and simple genome was recently completed. This is the most complete and authoritative laboratory manual to be published on this model organism and the first to deal with genomic and proteomic approaches to its biology.

Chapter 1: How to Grow Arabidopsis Chapter 2: Obtaining Mutants Chapter 3: Genetic Analysis of Mutants Chapter 4: How to Analyze a Mutant Phenotypically Chapter 5: How to Transform Arabidopsis Chapter 6: How to Isolate a Gene Defined by a Mutation Chapter 7: How to Study Gene Expression Chapter 8: How to Study Gene Function Appendix 1: Where to find information on Arabidopsis Appendix 2: Critical chi-squared Values Appendix 3: Cautions Appendix 4: Suppliers