Sentences with phrase «thale cress plants»

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.

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.

The researchers Katja Meyer and Dr. Tino Köster harvested leaves from a thale cress plant over a three - day period to determine the biorhythm.

The researchers Katja Meyer und Dr. Tino Köster harvested leaves from a thale cress plant over a three - day period to determine the biological rhythms.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

«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).

Together with plant physiologist Prof. Dr. Stephan Clemens, various mutants of the thale cress were tested in the laboratory to see how they reacted to thioarsenates added to their nutrient solution.

The experiments in Bayreuth, which also included several doctoral researchers — concentrated on the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a common plant in the fields of Europe and Asia that has proven to be a useful model organism in biological research.

Therefore the researchers used soybean plants for their experiments; but thale cress, tobacco and wild tomato were also connected pairwise or in clusters with the parasite.

Even for the reference plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) the function for about 10,000 proteins remains enigmatic.

Three years ago, Lindquist's group announced that Hsp90 performs the same trick in the experimental plant thale cress, making it likely that other organisms can also save up genetic changes for a rainy day.