Sentences with phrase «thaliana as»

2004 — Natasha Raikhel — for her studies of protein trafficking and for developing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the organism of choice for plant cell biology

1993 Christopher R. Somerville for development of Arabidopsis thaliana as a genetic system for the study of plant functions.

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.

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The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station.

According to the study, when a cress plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana is exposed to hunger stress as plants are transferred into complete darkness they can continue to grow for several days; autophagic digestion of chloroplast proteins are rapidly activated and amino acid levels increase.

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.

In studies of Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as mustard weed, a team of researchers at the University of Delaware found that when a plant has its leaf nicked, it plant sends out an emergency alert to neighboring plants, which begin beefing up their defenses.

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.

«As the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana contain cells at various phases, it was possible to observe different phases, shown in green and red,» explains Ueda.

Her plants are Arabidopsis thaliana, or common mustard cress — roadside weeds that serve as the plant world's equivalent of lab rats.

As a means to better understand such pathogen - plant interactions, Chory's team turned to the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana and, in particular, an enzyme called SOBER1 — which had previously been reported to suppress the weed's immune response to a bacterial protein known as AvrBsAs a means to better understand such pathogen - plant interactions, Chory's team turned to the well - studied weed Arabidopsis thaliana and, in particular, an enzyme called SOBER1 — which had previously been reported to suppress the weed's immune response to a bacterial protein known as AvrBsas AvrBsT.

Nagoya, Japan — Dr. Daisuke Maruyama and Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI - ITbM) of Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Higashiyama Live - Holonics Project along with their international team have shown by live - cell imaging techniques that flowering plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana undergo a cell to cell fusion to prevent the attraction of the second pollen tube after fertilization has occurred.

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

Arabidopsis thaliana is a cruciferous plant, which means that the knowledge gained through this research can be applied to other plants in this family such as Chinese cabbage, cabbage, broccoli, and rapeseed.

In a report published online this week by Science, Deng and his colleagues suggest that in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, blue - light photoreceptor proteins known as cryptochromes cozy up to COP1.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant biology.

Joanne Chory has spent more than 25 years using Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering mustard plant, as a model for plant growth.

This is the lesson from studying a dwarf mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, or mouse - ear cress, which behaves as if it were under constant attack from microbes.

They have also had an important role in projects to sequence the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (the first plant genome sequence), the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, as well as the human genome and other important genomes.

Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge.

Second, it is clear from Figure 7A that a significant load of deleterious mutations (as is required by background selection) exists in A. thaliana.