Sentences with word «thale»

A side - by - side comparison shows better heat and drought tolerance in thale cress plants whose level of a specific RNA was increased.

The lncRNA his team discovered in thale cress plants existed in low numbers under non-stress conditions, but levels increased when the plants encountered drought or salt stress, he said.

The UNC researchers performed XR - seq scans on cells from UV - exposed plants — Arabidopsis thaliana, the «lab rat» of plant research also known as thale cress or mouse - ear cress.

Crossing 30 other variants of thale cress resulted in inviable offspring about one - fourth of the time.

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

In BRIC 17 - 1, cell cultures derived from thale cress plants are grown in Petri dishes and later examined to determine which genes are involved in certain cellular changes.

For the study, published last week in the journal The Plant Cell, the researchers used as a starting point Arabidopsis soq1, a mutant thale - cress plant that displays an enhancement of a slowly reversible form of energy dissipation.

Amity Wilczek and Johanna Schmitt at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, examined thale cress seeds that had been banked on Earth for 70 years.

They found that when thale cress and lettuce plants were subjected to increasing amounts of biochar mixed with soil, using the equivalent of up to 50 tonnes per hectare per year, if applied in the field, plant growth was stimulated by over 100 percent.

Europe has instead focused on the commercially unimportant thale cress, Arabidopsis, mainly because it has a very simple genome.

Indeed, as geneticist Michael Bevan of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England told Science, the genome sequence from the humble thale cress, «will have as much impact as the human genome.»

But the money and technology required to unravel these genomes tower over those needed for the simple thale cress.

A related experiment, BRIC 17 - 2, exposes thale cress seedlings to low oxygen levels to examine its effects on the health of their roots.

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.

Other genetic combinations resulted in a measly thale cress with shorter - than - normal roots.

Barbara Hohn of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, and her colleagues subjected several thale cress plants — Arabidopsis thaliana — to harsh levels of ultraviolet light or evidence of bacterial pathogens.

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.

For the study now published in PNAS interactions of 38 of some of the most important transcription factor proteins of thale cress were investigated.

The researcher's onward plan is to dig deeper into the function of the zinc pumps in thale cress with the final goal being to transfer the principles to conventional crops.

The study, led by Assistant Professor Xu Jian from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, was carried out using a small flowering plant called thale cress, known scientifically as Arabidopsis.

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.

To confirm the gene's function, the researchers turned to another lab plant, the thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana, in which they could deactivate the corresponding gene; they found that the resulting plants stayed green longer.

Only few plant mutations are known to give plants with white spots on their leaves, and they are known primarily in the small plant thale cress (arabidopsis), and hence plant breeders are interested in developing new types.

This is where it all begins for the thale cress flower.

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

In their study, the scientists have now found out that there are two proteins in the thale cress plant, PCH1 and PCHL, which bind to phytochrome B and influence the activity of the receptor.

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.

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.

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.

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

By studying the plant model Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), the researchers found that pathogens specifically targeted the highly networked proteins.

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

We did that by breeding mutant thale cress with no zinc pumps in the seeds and comparing the seed amount of zinc with thale cress with their zinc pumps intact.

Hoping to learn more about what keeps species apart — and how new species form — biologist Olivier Loudet of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris turned to the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a weed from the mustard family.

Postdoc and first author on the published article, Lene Irene Olsen, also from the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, describes the origin and progress of the study: «Basically, we started the project because we knew from other studies that zinc pumps play a significant role in zinc uptake in the roots of the small weed Arabidopsis or thale cress.

Loudet and colleagues sampled two populations of thale cress, from Poland and the Cape Verde Islands in the middle Atlantic Ocean.

The team transiently induced SGR in fully green leaves of a small flowering plant called thale cress.

Immediately, they noticed a subtle genetic difference: One of two copies of the gene for the essential amino acid histidine is partially deleted in chromosome 5 of the island thale, and it is not expressed at all in chromosome 1 of the Polish thale.

Scientists sequenced the complete Arabidopsis genome in 2000, making genetic analysis relatively easy; and, with many populations growing throughout the world, thale cress has a wide range of genetic variety.

Building on work that led to lamps made from genetically engineered bioluminescent bacteria, Antony Evans and others behind the Glowing Plant Project have added genes for bioluminescence to the genome of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).

In Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), a popular experimental plant, the hours are tracked by a gene called CONSTANS.

They identified SWEET9 as a key player in three diverse flowering plant species, thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana, turnip Brassica rapa and coyote tobacca Nicotiana attenuata, and demonstrated that it is essential for nectar production.

A small flowering plant also known as thale cress, commonly used in biological studies of plants.

While ACME was built to accommodate small samples — the specimen used in this study was a tiny weed known as thale cress — it can readily be adapted for use with larger samples and different imaging systems.

«Small ncRNA have received much attention in recent years, but in many long, or lncRNA, like the one we found to affect drought and salt tolerance in thale cress, the biological functions remain unknown.»

«Our next step will be to engineer the lncRNA levels in plants other than thale cress and to test whether it might improve drought and salt tolerance across a broader spectrum.»

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

Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have discovered a ribonucleic acid, or RNA, that can increase the thale cress plant's resistance to stress from drought and salt.

(right) are investigating the absorption of thioarsenates in the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana).