Isabell Albert, Hannah Böhm, Thorsten Nürnberger and other researchers at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), working with scientists at the universities of Utrecht, Würzburg and Tsinghua (Beijing) have identified genes in the model plant Arabidopsis
thaliana which are important for recognising nlp20.
Not exact matches
The mustard plant Arabidopsis
thaliana may be revealing another way in
which life exploits RNA's capacity for genetic storage.
The Arabidopsis
thaliana plant root, used in these studies, is a quite simple organ, in
which cells with different functions are separated.
In the plant - model Arabidopsis
thaliana, the state of dormancy is maintained by the endosperm, a single cell layer within the seed coat surrounding the embryo,
which synthesizes and continuously releases ABA towards the embryo.
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.
Now, researchers of the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology (BIOP), in collaboration with staff of the former Institute of Soil Ecology (IBÖ), the Research Unit Experimental Environmental Simulation (EUS) and the Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry (BGC) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have discovered the underlying mechanism that Arabidopsis
thaliana plants use to draw NO directly from the air,
which they subsequently fix into their nitrogen metabolism.
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.
In order to figure out
which phase that chem7 actually acts upon, Ueda and her team used two fluorescent proteins of different colors to visualize the process of the cell cycles in the root of Arabidopsis
thaliana.
In the current work,
which is reported online this week in the journal PNAS, researchers in the Lindquist lab screened protein fragments from Arabidopsis
thaliana, a relative of the mustard plant, and identified 474 that contain prion - like domains.
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 AvrBsT.
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.
Hybrid vigor can be seen in the model plant Arabidopsis
thaliana (
which belongs to the same Cruciferae family as Chinese cabbages).
In this research, the team used Arabidopsis
thaliana with mutations in a gene related to DNA methylation, and by confirming the instances of hybrid vigor, they investigated
which genes and epigenetic modifications regulating the genes were linked to hybrid vigor.
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.
The researchers discovered this mechanism,
which was previously known in flowering plants like Arabidopsis
thaliana, in the moss Physcomitrella patens and found similarities between the two, implying that it already existed in the last common ancestor of mosses and flowering plants.
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].
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.