Sentences with phrase «first plant genome»

They have also had an important role in projects to sequence the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (the first plant genome sequence), the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, as well as the human genome and other important genomes.

December 14, 2000 First plant genome completed A multi-national research team reports the completion of the Arabidopsis genome in the December 14, 2000 issue of Nature.

Not exact matches

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

For a plant to create reproductive cells, it must first erase a key code, a series of tags attached to DNA across the genome known as epigenetic marks.

To use CallHap, researchers must first obtain a reference genome sequence for their target species, either from previously published work or by sequencing the DNA of a single plant.

There has been growing evidence from genome sequencing that plants sometimes exchange mitochondria, but this study is the first to show it actually happening.

«The data will provide our first detailed look into the Joshua tree genome,» said Michael McKain, an evolutionary biologist working on the project and a post-doctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.

«As the first reference sequence of the sunflower genome, it's quite the accomplishment,» said paper co-author John M. Burke, professor of plant biology and member of the UGA Plant Ceplant biology and member of the UGA Plant CePlant Center.

First, samples of leaves from these plants are collected for in vitro cultures to isolate the fungi; then the DNA and RNA of fungi are extracted to sequence them and, through bioinformatic analysis, the researcher can determine the expression, the presence or absence of genes in the genomes of a species against each other.

The first step in their process was to transfer the genes of the artemisinic acid pathway's core set of enzymes into the chloroplast genome of tobacco plants, generating what are known as transplastomic plants.

In a world - first, Japanese scientists have used the revolutionary CRISPR, or CRISPR / Cas9, genome - editing tool to change flower colour in an ornamental plant.

It is not the first time that researchers find bacterial, fungal or viral DNA in the genome of plants or animals.

First discovered in plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human genome and may play an important role in genome evolution (pdf).

For the first time, we can rapidly and inexpensively view and understand the function of entire genomes belonging to wild animals, plants and microbes.

He led the Brazilian team that last year published the first genome sequence of a plant pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa.

Now, researchers involved in an international effort to sequence the entire genome of Arabidopsis have obtained - for the first time - the complete DNA sequence of chromosomes from a plant species.

Arabidopsis was the first plant to have its genome sequenced.