Sentences with phrase «model plant»

Each year, the facility can analyze the changes wrought by tweaking up to 1,300 genes, each one expressed and evaluated in over 100 different model plants.

By using different lines of model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, researchers from the Biochimie et physiologie moléculaire des plantes laboratory (CNRS / INRA / Université Montpellier / Montpellier SupAgro) and Institut Jean - Pierre Bourgin (INRA / AgroParisTech / CNRS) identified a gene that controls root water permeability and which is influenced jointly by soil oxygen and potassium levels.

Understanding drought - responsive signaling and the molecular and biochemical mechanisms of drought tolerance in model plants such as Arabidopsis and rice provide new insight into how to develop drought - tolerant crop plants through conventional breeding or biotechnological approaches.»

In the past decade, Arabidopsis has emerged as the primary model plant for geneticists working on plant morphogenesis, to the point that it may now be considered the Drosophila of the plant world.

Makarevitch I, Martinez - Vaz B. (2017) Killing two birds with one stone: Model plant systems as a tool to teach the fundamental concepts of gene expression while analyzing biological data.

In 2009, cucumber became the seventh plant to have its genome sequence published, following the well - studied model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the poplar tree, grapevine, papaya, and the crops rice and sorghum.

Gramene is a curated, open - source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species.

You can use to ask sophisticated questions about the genes across all of our databases concerning crop and model plant genomes:

Much of my team's work focuses on transgene technology from early - stage experiments in model plants all the way to field trials with crop plants such as corn.

The study has been made on the experimental model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, a species that presents great advantages for molecular biology research.

«Move over Arabidopsis, there's a new model plant in town.»

Imaging of cesium localization in cells of the general model plant, Arabidopsis, was performed.

Japanese morning glory, or Asagao, was chosen for this study as it is one of two traditional horticultural model plants in the National BioResource Project in Japan (NBRP).

APEX - 06 aims to compare the growth and gene - expression patterns of Brachypodium distachyon with those of the dicotyledonous model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, which has been extensively studied in space and whose behavior in microgravity is better understood.

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

DoN is a Nature game and an ecological simulation modeling plant and animal life.

Arabidopsis is currently the most popular model plant.

Cooling during the period of seasonal water limitation reduces modeled plant water stress.

We use two model plant systems, maize, one of the most important crop plants in the world, and a common weed, Arabidopsis thaliana.

It is a model plant for the future for companies in the food and beverage industry.

The very first goal is to prove that any new technology works in a model plant and then to protect it with a patent.

«We used weedy rice as a model plant.

«This research is a useful addition to what we're trying to do in terms of improving the way that we model plants.

The retrotransposon has spontaneously become active in Lotus japonicus, which the research group uses as a model plant in their studies.

This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

Therefore, using the model plant Arabidopsis, they extended the expression time of WRI1, a gene that activates oil synthesis.

The research team used a model plant called Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant, for the study.

«In our study, we used two mutant strains of the model plant Lotus japonicus to investigate whether the host plant actively makes up for this deficiency.»

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.

To test their theory, Xiaoli Guo, a post-doctoral researcher in Mitchum's lab and first author of the study, synthesized the CLE - B nematode peptide and applied it to the vascular cells of Arabidopsis, a model plant system used in plant research.

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.

«This could have potentially big implications for the agricultural industry,» says Dr Pullen, «Our model plant is in the same family as cabbages, so it's easy to imagine creating giant cabbages or growing them to the desired market size faster than at present.»

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.

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.

A root tip of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

In a recent study of lettuce and the model plant Arabidopsis, researchers at the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center and in China show for the first time that a gene known to direct the depth of seed dormancy and the timing of germination also influences flowering.

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.

By applying chem7 to the young seeds and roots of a model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, the group found that rapid inhibition of cell division was observed in both tissues.

Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.

The Indonesians are not only supposed to operate the model plants, but to transfer the technologies to other karst regions on their own.

Researchers have already identified five genes involved in vernalization in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

In June, a group reported success with the model plant Arabidopsis; by adding three genes, researchers led by Baoxiu Qi of the University of Bath, U.K., created plants in which EPA made up 20 % of the plant's oils.

Two groups of researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of California, Davis, have found the gene regulatory networks that are responsible for the synthesis of the secondary cell wall components, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

This picture was suddenly complicated in 1999, when Gerd Jürgens and his colleagues at the University of Tübingen in Germany discovered a mutant of the model plant Arabidopsis with efflux pumps everywhere in the cell.

Hybrid vigor can be seen in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (which belongs to the same Cruciferae family as Chinese cabbages).

By using the model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, the team studied the function of EPFL2 and found that plants that are unable to synthesize EPFL2 grow with rounded leaves, which do not develop the leaf teeth that are usually present in the wild type.

Now Staiger and her team have examined another part of the biological clock in detail, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress).