50 years of Arabidopsis research: highlights and future directions

The year 2014 marked the 25th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research. In the 50 yr since the first International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, held in 1965 in G€ottingen,Germany, > 54 000 papers that mention Arabidopsis thaliana in the title, abstract or keywords have been published.Wepresent herein a citational network analysis of these papers, and touch on some of the import…