Joanne Chory has spent more than 25 years using Arabidopsis thaliana, a small
flowering mustard plant, as a model for plant growth.
Lippman and Cora MacAlister, Ph.D., lead author on the new paper, found that deleting the genes for these enzymes from
the flowering mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens resulted in similar defects in both species, which are widely separated in evolutionary time.
So far, the best they've done is to create some blue spots on the stems of
flowering mustard plants — «which is not going to excite many people,» Guengerich admits.
Not exact matches
This recipe is intended for the leaves or
flowers of the brassica
plants, you could try cooking with the roots here (by that I mean turnips or rutabagas) but I would stick with cauliflower,
mustard greens, Brussels sprouts, or broccoli rabe.
Within the cruciferous vegetable group, we commonly eat the
flowers of the
plant (for example, the broccoli florets), the leaves (for example,
mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and kale), the stems and stalks (for example, broccoli stems and stalks), the roots (for example, turnips or rutabagas or radishes), and the seeds (for example,
mustard seeds).
The study, which can be read in Nature Communications, shows the transcription factor family MYB3R prevents progression to the division stage (M phase) of the cell cycle in Arabidopsis, a small
flowering plant that is a member of the
mustard family.
The researchers used a modified line of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small
flowering plant related to cabbage and
mustard, to conduct the experiment.
Researchers have found that a Rocky Mountain
mustard plant alters its physical appearance and
flowering time in response to different environmental conditions, suggesting some species can quickly shape - shift to cope with climate change without having to migrate or evolve.
In the new study, researchers grew and collected black
mustard (Brassica nigra, pictured),
flowering plants that commonly appear around the world.
In the study, caterpillars were placed on Arabidopsis, a small
flowering plant related to cabbage and
mustard.
In the
mustard plant Arabidopsis, for example, epigenetic alterations in leaf and
flower shape can be passed on to offspring.
Within the cruciferous vegetable group, we commonly eat the
flowers of the
plant (for example, the broccoli florets), the leaves (for example,
mustard greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and kale), the stems and stalks (for example, broccoli stems and stalks), the roots (for example, turnips or rutabagas or radishes), and the seeds (for example,
mustard seeds).