Sentences with phrase «aribidopsis thaliana»

Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology, with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.

They found that only morning glory seeds germinated after being exposed to light roughly 6 million times the dose typically used to sterilize drinking water, conditions that killed the much smaller tobacco and A. thaliana seeds.

The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

The mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana may be revealing another way in which life exploits RNA's capacity for genetic storage.

The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research.

Xinnian Dong of Duke University in North Carolina and colleagues studied how Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant, defends itself against a fungus - like pathogen, Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis.

A plant experiment carried into orbit will evaluate the growth and development of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in space where they are not effected by wind, their own weight or other forces they would encounter on Earth.

The Arabidopsis thaliana plant root, used in these studies, is a quite simple organ, in which cells with different functions are separated.

When the researchers then compared the analysis of tomatoes with that of duckweed and the research model Arabidopsis thaliana, they discovered an overlap in specialized metabolite content among these strikingly different species.

Yet that is what seems to occur in the weedy cress Arabidopsis thaliana, the workhorse of plant biologists.

Chao and colleagues found CTL1 while screening for genes that control ion homeostasis in the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.

To learn more about these growth - regulating genes, Dr. Inzé's team, in close collaboration with Dr Arthur Korte of the GMI (Austria) and the University of Würzburg (Germany), looked at the genetic variability of 100 types (accessions) of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant.

Arabidopsis thaliana, pollinates itself — an ability that new research suggests it acquired relatively recently in its evolutionary history.

Together with scientists from Columbia (USA), Olomouc (Czech Republic), Warsaw (Poland), Osaka (Japan) and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, the researchers at the University of Bonn have used Arabidopsis thaliana as a model plant to discover that the beet cyst nematode itself produces the plant hormone cytokinin.

The genomes of these 377 bacterial isolates, plus an additional 107 single bacterial cells from roots of A. thaliana, were then sequenced, assembled, and annotated at the JGI.

In the new study, Dangl and colleagues delved more deeply into this relationship, using mutant versions of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weed that has long been the standard «lab rat» of plant biology research.

A team of researchers at the University of Bonn, in cooperation with scientists from the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, has now identified a gene in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), called NILR1, that helps plants sense nematodes.

In the plant - model Arabidopsis thaliana, the state of dormancy is maintained by the endosperm, a single cell layer within the seed coat surrounding the embryo, which synthesizes and continuously releases ABA towards the embryo.

The researchers, including postgraduate students Miaolin Chen at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Deborah Devis at the University of Adelaide's Waite campus, performed a genome - wide analysis of potential pollen allergens in two model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) and rice by comparing those results among 25 species of plants ranging from simple alga to complex flowering plants.

According to the study, when a cress plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana is exposed to hunger stress as plants are transferred into complete darkness they can continue to grow for several days; autophagic digestion of chloroplast proteins are rapidly activated and amino acid levels increase.

The findings, published in the Journal of The Royal Society Interface, identify the origin of a «gambling» approach to germination in Arabidopsis thaliana, more commonly known as thale cress.

During her PhD, Karen Kloth studied aphid feeding behavior on different varieties of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, collected from 350 different locations on the northern hemisphere.

They used Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) plants that produce a special protein which breaks down after the binding of calcium ions and emits free energy in the form of light.

Several studies involve a small flowering plant called thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana, which is essentially the lab mouse of plant research.

A root tip of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

With regard to the air quality in cities with high concentrations of nitrogen oxides, this property of Arabidopsis thaliana plants could contribute significantly to the reduction of NO and thus improve air quality.

This image shows Spodoptera littoralis larva feeding on a Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) plant.

Now, researchers of the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology (BIOP), in collaboration with staff of the former Institute of Soil Ecology (IBÖ), the Research Unit Experimental Environmental Simulation (EUS) and the Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry (BGC) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered the underlying mechanism that Arabidopsis thaliana plants use to draw NO directly from the air, which they subsequently fix into their nitrogen metabolism.

«Air purification: Plant hemoglobin proteins help arabidopsis thaliana plants fix atmospheric nitric oxide.»

The researchers used a modified line of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, to conduct the experiment.

An image of artificially - produced cellulose in cells on the surface of a modified Arabidopsis thaliana plant.

These are Arabidopsis thaliana plants inoculated with Botrytis cinerea spores.

In studies of Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as mustard weed, a team of researchers at the University of Delaware found that when a plant has its leaf nicked, it plant sends out an emergency alert to neighboring plants, which begin beefing up their defenses.

In one 2015 study, researchers took 3 - week - old specimens of Arabidopsis thaliana (a relative of cabbage and mustard) out of the soil.

But with their program, researchers were able to watch the cells in root tips of plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) growing and splitting in 3D over the course of days, they report this month on the preprint server bioRxiv.

Associate Professor Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, from Monash University, along with colleagues in Spain, made the discovery after analysing natural populations of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly known as thale cress.

But the image, by Fernan Federici and Lionel Dupuy of the University of Cambridge, is not just a pretty picture — it contains information about gene expression in the stem of genetically modified thale cress, or Arabidopsis thaliana.

«As the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana contain cells at various phases, it was possible to observe different phases, shown in green and red,» explains Ueda.

Her plants are Arabidopsis thaliana, or common mustard cress — roadside weeds that serve as the plant world's equivalent of lab rats.

The roots of Arabidopsis thaliana with their cell cycles visualized.

In a series of experiments published in 2014, Argentinian biologists grew young Arabidopsis thaliana (yes, scientists really like that plant) in rows of pots.

Beyond the 15 scientists, the star of the HHMI awards is arguably a small mustard plant, Arabidopsis thaliana.

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.

But researchers report today in Science that they have discovered a novel mutation in the weed Arabidopsis thaliana that shields it from harmful reactions with TNT.

The mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana sometimes ends up with its grandparents» good copy of a gene instead of the mutant ones belonging to its parents.

For plant biologists, the unraveling of the genetic code of this small mustardlike weed, Arabidopsis thaliana, offers a long - awaited window into the genetic makeup of all plants, including key crops.

In order to figure out which phase that chem7 actually acts upon, Ueda and her team used two fluorescent proteins of different colors to visualize the process of the cell cycles in the root of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Caroline Dean of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, and her colleagues studied this response in the ubiquitous Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress.

So far, Trewavas's team has transferred the gene into tobacco, potato and Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).

The researchers simulated only two specific types of PYL receptors, found in a small, flowering plant called A. thaliana.