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.
The roots of Arabidopsis
thaliana with their cell cycles visualized.
Not exact matches
Researchers at the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB), an NSF Science and Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, study plants like this Arabidopsis
thaliana to learn how molecules, cells and tissues integrate mechanics within plant and animal biology,
with the aim of creating new materials, biomedical therapies and agricultural technologies.
The Arabidopsis
thaliana plant root, used in these studies, is a quite simple organ, in which cells
with different functions are separated.
When the researchers then compared the analysis of tomatoes
with that of duckweed and the research model Arabidopsis
thaliana, they discovered an overlap in specialized metabolite content among these strikingly different species.
To learn more about these growth - regulating genes, Dr. Inzé's team, in close collaboration
with Dr Arthur Korte of the GMI (Austria) and the University of Würzburg (Germany), looked at the genetic variability of 100 types (accessions) of the Arabidopsis
thaliana model plant.
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.
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.
With regard to the air quality in cities with high concentrations of nitrogen oxides, this property of Arabidopsis thaliana plants could contribute significantly to the reduction of NO and thus improve air qual
With regard to the air quality in cities
with high concentrations of nitrogen oxides, this property of Arabidopsis thaliana plants could contribute significantly to the reduction of NO and thus improve air qual
with high concentrations of nitrogen oxides, this property of Arabidopsis
thaliana plants could contribute significantly to the reduction of NO and thus improve air quality.
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.
These are Arabidopsis
thaliana plants inoculated
with Botrytis cinerea spores.
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.
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.
But researchers report today in Science that they have discovered a novel mutation in the weed Arabidopsis
thaliana that shields it from harmful reactions
with TNT.
The mustard plant Arabidopsis
thaliana sometimes ends up
with its grandparents» good copy of a gene instead of the mutant ones belonging to its parents.
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.
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.
Led by Oxford's Prof. Nicholas Harberd, the team looked at 9000 mutations accumulated in five generations of a MMR - deficient strain of the model plant species Arabidopsis
thaliana, and compared them
with mutations arising in an MMR - proficient strain.
Complexes
with Mixed Primary and Secondary Cellulose Synthases are Functional in Arabidopsis
thaliana Plants, Andrew Carroll, Nasim Mansoori, Shundai Li, Lei Lei, Samantha Vernhettes, Richard Visser, Chris Somerville, Yong Gu, Luisa Trindade, Plant Physiology, 160, 726 - 737, http://dx.
Nuclear Activity of ROXY1, a Glutaredoxin Interacting
with TGA Factors, Is Required for Petal Development in Arabidopsis
thaliana.
The mustard cress Arabidopsis
thaliana is a fast - growing weed
with a tiny genome that is much easier to study than the massive genomes of key crops like wheat and corn.
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.
Ashley Bianco of River Springs Charter School in Temecula took fourth place in Plant Sciences at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
with «Novel Genes and Mutations in Arabidopsis
thaliana.»