Susan Lolle and Robert Pruitt of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana first discovered that genes could go back in time about 3 years ago while studying a gene in A. thaliana called HOTHEAD. (sciencemag.org)
2004 — Natasha Raikhel — for her studies of protein trafficking and for developing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the organism of choice for plant cell biology (aspb.org)
The roots of Arabidopsis thaliana with their cell cycles visualized. (sciencedaily.com)