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.
Not exact matches
A plant experiment carried into orbit will evaluate the growth and development of Arabidopsis
thaliana seedlings in space where they are not effected by wind, their own weight or other forces they would encounter
on Earth.
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.
This image shows Spodoptera littoralis larva feeding
on a Arabidopsis
thaliana (thale cress) plant.
An image of artificially - produced cellulose in cells
on the surface of a modified Arabidopsis
thaliana plant.
But with their program, researchers were able to watch the cells in root tips of plants (Arabidopsis
thaliana) growing and splitting in 3D over the course of days, they report this month
on the preprint server bioRxiv.
The current work, led by Busch and including researchers from Austria's Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (where Busch was formerly based) focused
on the well - studied weed Arabidopsis
thaliana, a relative of cabbage and mustard.
Lippman and Cora MacAlister, Ph.D., lead author
on the new paper, found that deleting the genes for these enzymes from the flowering mustard plant Arabidopsis
thaliana and the moss Physcomitrella patens resulted in similar defects in both species, which are widely separated in evolutionary time.
«This mechanism
on how the EPFL2 peptide creates leaf teeth was uncovered using Arabidopsis
thaliana,» explains Tameshige.
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.
In addition, most of these screens have been performed
on the model species Arabidopsis
thaliana, a dicot, which is known to have a different cell wall type than grasses [9].
Stelzer concentrates his efforts
on applications and further developments of advanced light microscopies in the modern life sciences, working
on various aspects and applications of three - dimensional cell biology, lateral root development in Arabidopsis
thaliana and the embryogenesis of, amongst other insects, Tribolium castaneum.
We describe a gene network for the Arabidopsis
thaliana transcriptome based
on a modified graphical Gaussian model (GGM).
Soft and hard selection
on plant defence traits in Arabidopsis
thaliana.
The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 functions downstream or independently of SA to promote virulence
on Arabidopsis
thaliana