Sentences with phrase «thale cress with»
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.