The Plant Proteome Database is a
National Science Foundation-funded project to determine the biological function of each
protein in
plants.
[Sun Q, Zybailov B, Majeran W, Friso G, Olinares PD, van Wijk KJ. (2008) PPDB, the Plant Proteomics Database at Cornell. Nucleic Acids Res. 2 Oct] It includes data for two plants that are widely studied in
molecular biology,
Arabidopsis thaliana
''Arabidopsis thaliana'', the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa. ''A. thaliana'' is considered a weed; it is found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land.
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and
maize (Zea mays). Initially the project was limited to plant plastids, under the name of the Plastid PDB, but was expanded and renamed Plant PDB in November 2007.
[PPDB Home Page: http://ppdb.tc.cornell.edu/]
See also
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Proteome
References
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External links
Plant Proteome Database home page
Plant physiology
Government databases in the United States
Biological databases