• This genus is of great interest since it contains thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), one of the model organisms used for studying plant biology and the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced. (wikipedia.org)
  • The thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana does not have this gene. (science20.com)
  • The simple oval leaves of Arabidopsis now develop deep lobes" says Tsiantis, "The fact that the leaf shape becomes complex again through the transfer of the RCO gene alone, shows that most of the apparatus for the formation of leaflets must still be present in the thale cress and was not lost with the RCO gene. (science20.com)
  • Together with the rice seedlings, experimental seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana , or thale cress, also grew vigorously in the space station. (isaaa.org)
  • Using a multicellular model, maintanence of vascular patterning in Arabidopsis roots has been studied. (nih.gov)
  • In the year 2001 the Arabidopsis genome sequence was completed. (bioone.org)
  • The Arabidopsis genome was the first plant genome to be sequenced. (learner.org)
  • Genome-wide reprogramming of primary and secondary metabolism, protein synthesis, cellular growth processes, and the regulatory infrastructure of Arabidopsis in response to nitrogen. (mpg.de)
  • Cellular and molecular biologists frequently study Arabidopsis because it grows rapidly (its entire life cycle is only 6 weeks), produces lots of seeds, and has a genome that's easy to manipulate. (nih.gov)
  • The PLB 3D structure in several Arabidopsis mutants ( ccr1-1 , lut5-1 , szl1-1npq1-2 , aba1-6, pif1 , cpt7 ) with disturbed levels of particular pigments and polyprenols using electron tomography technique was studied. (frontiersin.org)
  • The aim of the project was to study growth responses of a large range of Arabidopsis genotypes (mutants and accessions) in response to light competition, which is also denoted as shade avoidance syndrome (SAS). (europa.eu)
  • Two mutants with contrasting drought sensitivity and the Col-0 ecotype were subjected to water limitation while growing on two differnt substrate types. (lemnatec.com)
  • This genetic analysis has been carried out with plants of the different mutants and genotypes, as well as WT controls growing at the same time and in identical conditions. (bham.ac.uk)
  • Elemental concentrations in the seed of mutants and natural variants of Arabidopsis thaliana grown under varying soil conditions. (nih.gov)
  • In the past decade the first Arabidopsis genes encoding cytoskeletal proteins were identified. (bioone.org)
  • Several Arabidopsis ABPs, MAPs, and IF proteins are represented by individual genes and most were represented as as small gene families. (bioone.org)
  • Leaf microarray studies showed that many genes involved in microRNAs (miRNAs) and trans-acting siRNAs (tasiRNAs) biogenesis were significantly changed in the fast-growing lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To find the molecular mechanisms that control drought tolerance, Samuel and his research group used a model plant species called Arabidopsis, a close relative of canola with 85-per-cent similar genes. (ucalgary.ca)
  • If one or other of the two genes is subjected to the effect of the RCO control region, Arabidopsis makes complex leaves. (science20.com)
  • In COL (Columbus Orbital Laboratory), FE-2 Caldwell-Dyson adjusted the VCA-1 (Video Camera Assembly 1) for covering her activities, then worked several hours on the Genara A (Gravity Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis A) experiment, finishing the experiment. (nasa.gov)
  • In Arabidopsis, a subset of 45 putative genes encoding members of this family have been identified based on generalized mitochondrial carrier features. (nih.gov)
  • Tomato SlVIPP1 , like its Arabidopsis VIPP1 ortholog, is one of such genes, whose studies in both model species reveal that the formation and maintenance of thylakoid membranes is an essential process for plant growth and survival. (frontiersin.org)
  • Early genetic screens in Arabidopsis were instrumental in uncovering numerous proteins required for these important regulatory pathways. (upenn.edu)
  • Here, we focus on the specific functions of the six Arabidopsis RDRs in RNA silencing, their ssRNA substrates and resulting RDR-dependent smRNAs, and the numerous biological functions of these proteins in plant development and stress responses. (upenn.edu)
  • a high-protein seed and high-quality forage that grows year-round in temperate climates could contribute to feeding the growing human population with more affordable and sustainable animal proteins. (thefishsite.com)
  • Recent surveys of the Arabidopsis mitochondrial proteome by two-dimensional gel separations have not identified any of these carrier proteins, presumably because of their hydrophobicity and basicity. (nih.gov)
  • Isolating integral membrane proteins from Arabidopsis mitochondria, using one-dimensional electrophoresis for protein separation and tandem mass spectrometry-based sequencing of doubly charged peptides, we have unequivocally identified specific carrier gene products located in mitochondria. (nih.gov)
  • Proteins were grown in the medium supplemented with labeled arginine and switched to light medium and isolated at defined time points. (medscape.com)
  • To evaluate the performance under water-stress and normal irrigation conditions of transgenic bread wheat lines containing the Arabidopsis thaliana DREB1A under the control of the stress inducible promoter rd29a. (cimmyt.org)
  • In the new study, transgenic Arabidopsis and tobacco plants turned white when they contacted airborne TNT or when exposed to soilborne TNT through their roots. (nih.gov)
  • gemmifera (Matsumura) (Russian Far East, northeastern China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan) Arabidopsis lyrata (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz - sand cress A. lyrata subsp. (wikipedia.org)
  • Why Sequence Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella? (doe.gov)
  • Sequencing Arabidopsis lyrata and Capsella rubella , close relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana , will leverage the rich information now available for A. thaliana , arguably the most important reference plant. (doe.gov)
  • Arabidopsis lyrata is the closest well-characterized relative in the same genus as A. thaliana , and Capsella is the closest well-characterized genus. (doe.gov)
  • To find out, the team analyzed a large number of individuals from Arabidopsis thaliana, a common roadside weed and a favorite model organism of plant scientists, as well as material from the sister species Arabidopsis lyrata. (mpg.de)
  • Several years ago, researchers found that similar ER defects in a plant widely used for agricultural research, Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress), impair the growth of the plant's root hairs-the wispy, microscopic projections that grow from individual root cells. (nih.gov)
  • One breakthrough came from studying the plant Arabidopsis thaliana , a small, flowering weed also called mouse-ear cress. (nih.gov)
  • at bottom, Arabidopsis roots. (nih.gov)
  • von Wangenheim D, Hauschild R, Fendrych M, Barone V, Benková E and Friml J. (2017) Live tracking of moving samples in confocal microscopy for vertically grown roots. (ist.ac.at)
  • Many woody plants are fast growing, have deep roots, produce abundant biomass, are easy to harvest, and several species revealed some capacity to tolerate and accumulate heavy metals. (sisef.it)
  • Some of the plants grown in the lunar soil samples had "stunted" roots and leaves, as well as some "reddish pigmentation," the release said. (kmuw.org)
  • Currently, the genus Arabidopsis has nine species and a further eight subspecies recognised. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their findings confirm the species formerly included in Arabidopsis made it polyphyletic. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most recent reclassification moves two species previously placed in Cardaminopsis and Hylandra and three species of Arabis into Arabidopsis, but excludes 50 that have been moved into the new genera Beringia, Crucihimalaya, Ianhedgea, Olimarabidopsis, and Pseudoarabidopsis. (wikipedia.org)
  • All of the species in Arabidopsis are indigenous to Europe, while two of the species have broad ranges also extending into North America and Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • A comparison of this Arabidopsis carrier subset (45) to the yeast gene family (35) reveals 10 orthologous groups between the two species. (nih.gov)
  • The gene has been shown to confer tolerance to drought, low temperatures, and salinity in Arabidopsis, a plant species related to wild mustard (see Nature Biotechnology 17:287-291). (cimmyt.org)
  • Main thing is finding out what your plant species needs to grow. (sciencemadness.org)
  • We further wanted to study natural genetic variation in field-collected Arabidopsis accessions and to potentially discover novel components in the SAS signaling network of leaves. (europa.eu)
  • Variation of enzyme activities and metabolite levels in 24 arabidopsis accessions growing in carbon-limited conditions. (mpg.de)
  • Therefore, we performed comprehensive ultrastructural and low-temperature fluorescence analysis of wild type Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) seedlings grown in different conditions typical for studies on etiolated seedlings. (frontiersin.org)
  • Arabidopsis Col-0 seedlings grown on nitrate perform better than seedlings grown on ammonium containing media. (ist.ac.at)
  • The HCF136 protein is produced already in dark-grown seedlings and its levels do not increase dramatically during light-induced greening. (nih.gov)
  • Analysis of Arabidopsis natural variation in biomass accumulation and metabolism. (mpg.de)
  • Though not useful as a biomass source, the team is studying Arabidopsis as a model system. (labmanager.com)
  • By determining both the overall vigour of each plant (as measured by above-ground biomass) and the difference between its growth in the two situations, they could see which plants maximized both the ability to grow rapidly and the ability to cooperate with genetically similar individuals so that their neighbours also grew well. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • When plants carrying that minor allele were grown in close proximity, they collectively produced 15% more biomass when grown at high density than plants carrying the major allele at the same locus. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • In Europe, the model organism resource centre for Arabidopsis thaliana germplasm, bioinformatics and molecular biology resources (including GeneChips) is the Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC) whilst in North America germplasm services are provided by the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) based at Ohio State University. (wikipedia.org)
  • They used the model plant Arabidopsis to compare the performance of a given plant when grown with another genetically similar individual (modelling a monoculture) to its performance when grown with a set of "tester" genotypes that varied in their growth strategies. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Arabidopsis suspension-cultured cells stably expressing aequorin in the plastid stroma were used as a suitable tool to dissect differential Ca2+ responses of non-green plastids versus chloroplasts to several environmental cues.Calcium is used by plants as an intracellular messenger in the detection of and response to a plethora of environmental stimuli and contributes to a fine-tuned internal regulation. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • This work has evaluated the potential participation of non-green plastids and chloroplasts in the plant Ca2+ signalling network using heterotrophic and autotrophic cell suspension cultures from Arabidopsis thaliana plant lines stably expressing the bioluminescent Ca2+ reporter aequorin targeted to the plastid stroma. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • As of May 2022 Arabidopsis thaliana has successfully been grown in samples of lunar soil. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the study, researchers planted the seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana - a plant related to mustard greens, as well as other cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli and cauliflower - in lunar soil, which was sampled directly from the moon from missions Apollo 11, 12 and 17. (kmuw.org)
  • Although all of the seeds sprouted, the ones that grew in lunar soil did not grow as "robust" as those in the control, according to the release. (kmuw.org)
  • The team used tobacco, widely considered the lab rat of plant biology because it is easy to genetically engineer and can be quickly grown and tested in outdoor field trials. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Specifically, the group is using Arabidopsis plants that have been genetically altered to boost autophagy, a process plants use to survive resource (carbon or nitrogen) limitations. (labmanager.com)
  • A direct evidence to this is the elicitation of defense response in Arabidopsis that leads to accumulation of defense molecules upon treatment with vibrations caused by churning sound of caterpillar 3 . (nature.com)
  • Our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of SAS has mainly come from studies on the hypocotyl (embryonic stem) of Arabidopsis plants. (europa.eu)
  • Ito's team looked at the activation and suppression of floral stem cells from Arabidopsis. (eurekalert.org)
  • The stem cells at the growing tip of this Arabidopsis plant will soon become flowers. (nih.gov)
  • Floating into view are baby flowers, their cells outlined (red), at the tip of the stem of the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana . (nih.gov)
  • Stem cells that contain the gene STM (green) huddle in the center of this fast-growing region of the plant stem-these stem cells will later make all of the flower parts. (nih.gov)
  • A role in thylakoid membrane maintenance and reorganization has been proposed for Vesicle Inducing Protein in Plastid 1 (VIPP1), the putative PspA ortholog in Arabidopsis thaliana . (frontiersin.org)
  • In 1982, the crew of the Soviet Salyut 7 space station grew some Arabidopsis, thus becoming the first plants to flower and produce seeds in space. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this we wanted to quantitatively measure SAS traits on rosette-stage Arabidopsis plants using a custom-built high-throughput phenotyping device (Scanalyzer HTS). (europa.eu)
  • Therefore a growth protocol was established to grow plants in a highly standardized environment, which was essential to minimize plant-to-plant variability and to compare data between experiments. (europa.eu)
  • A new paper published in the journal Agronomy explains that exposing Mentha spicata (L.) plants to UV-B radiation while growing in tissue culture containers, changes the architecture of the plants. (ucc.ie)
  • Our X-ray CT scanners come with a multipurpose 3 jaw chuck, but sometimes this is unsuited to the columns we grow and phenotype our plants in. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Dr. John Hogan and Dr. Robert Bowman were given the opportunity to conduct a small trial of the Ames developed dwarf Arabidopsis plants this season at Devon Island where scientists are working on the Haughton-Mars Project. (astrobiology.com)
  • The plants will be grown outside at the peak of the "summer" season where they will be exposed to continuous light and obviously cool temperatures. (astrobiology.com)
  • The intent of the Arabidopsis experiment is to see how the plants will perform in such harsh environments. (astrobiology.com)
  • No wheat plants are grown within 10 meters of the screenhouse trial. (cimmyt.org)
  • Carrington's lab conducts research on how viruses and host plants interact, using the model organism Arabidopsis. (learner.org)
  • We have this worldwide diversity of Arabidopsis that we can go out and analyze and bring back to the lab and answer basic questions of how plants grow and develop, how they respond to and defend themselves against pathogens, and in many cases how eukaryotes grow and develop. (learner.org)
  • Second-generation plants grown from seeds of the first plants inherited the ability to sense and respond to TNT. (nih.gov)
  • I grew some Cannabis indica plants in a hydro culture with self-made medium, I don't know the details of my mixture, but it looked like Murashige and Skoog medium, but definitely with a lot less vitamins. (sciencemadness.org)
  • My plants grew like crazy (5 cm a day sometimes). (sciencemadness.org)
  • I also grew Arabidopsis in sterile environment at university, these media contained glucose, and the new plants love it. (sciencemadness.org)
  • These concentrations are strongly influenced by soil conditions, as shown here by quantifying the concentration of 14 elements in seeds from Arabidopsis thaliana plants grown under four different soil conditions: standard, or modified with NaCl, heavy metals, or alkali. (nih.gov)
  • Graduate research assistants Daniel Freppon, left, and Brett Boote in Emily Smith's research group use Raman spectroscopy to study growing corn plants. (labmanager.com)
  • The research could also have implications for plants growing in harsh conditions on Earth, he added. (kmuw.org)
  • After the plants had grown for 20 days, researchers harvested the plants and prepared to study the plant RNA. (kmuw.org)
  • Because of its ease of use and low cost, Arabidopsis is a favorite model for scientists to learn the basic principles driving tissue growth and regrowth for humans as well as the beautiful plants outside your window. (nih.gov)
  • We've been looking at community gardens in San Diego, and we've been asking, especially if they're on former brownfield sites, are people growing their vegetables under conditions that might get the toxicants into edible portions of the plants," said Schroeder. (nih.gov)
  • Also, our systematic analysis of AtKu70 and AtKu80 transcripts expression in different Arabidopsis tissues shows different levels of expression and specificity of transcripts among tissues. (bham.ac.uk)
  • Bureau, Thomas E. (2015): A Comprehensive Approach to Assess Arabidopsis Survival Phenotype in Water-Limited Condition Using a Non-invasive High-Throughput Phenomics Platform. (lemnatec.com)
  • We found that a double mutant of Arabidopsis IRE1A and IRE1B ( ire1a/ire1b ) is more sensitive to the ER stress inducer tunicamycin than the wild-type. (nature.com)
  • Here, we characterized the onset of leaf death 12 ( old12 ) mutant that was identified in the Arabidopsis accession Landsberg erecta . (biomedcentral.com)
  • We demonstrate that old12 is an auto-immune mutant and that allelic variation of P2K2 contributes to diversity in Arabidopsis immune responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Also, for the first time in Arabidopsis a double Atku70xAtku80 mutant was generated. (bham.ac.uk)
  • Our genetic and molecular characterization of slvipp1 , an insertional mutant, allowed us to conclude that the tomato SlVIPP1 gene is needed for development, as Arabidopsis VIPP1 , but not Escherichia coli PspA . (frontiersin.org)
  • To understand the regulatory mechanisms underlying the biogenesis of photosystem II (PSII) we have characterized the nuclear mutant hcf136 of Arabidopsis thaliana and isolated the affected gene. (nih.gov)
  • In developing countries, millions of hectares of wheat are grown in areas that often experience drought, and the problem is projected to worsen with climate change. (cimmyt.org)
  • Metabolic and Phenotypic Responses of Greenhouse-Grown Maize Hybrids to Experimentally Controlled Drought Stress. (mpg.de)
  • There are three TAS3 loci in Arabidopsis thaliana , TAS3A (At3g17185), TAS3B (At5g49615) and TAS3C (At5g57735). (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this study, we have analyzed the elemental composition of kernels of the Maize NAM population grown in four diverse environments to identify the genetic loci underlying the ionome. (biorxiv.org)
  • And an important feature of Arabidopsis worldwide is that there are lots of so-called ecotypes with natural variation all around the world. (learner.org)
  • Initially we analyzed the grow-outs in separate experimental batches containing only a single grow-out, but for later runs we mixed samples from separate locations, allowing us to remove batch effects from the analysis of environmental variation. (biorxiv.org)
  • The interest in community organisation arose from Andrew's involvement in the UK organisation for Arabidopsis researchers, GARNet , from about 2000. (ed.ac.uk)
  • The expressed gene patterns matched the way in which researchers had seen Arabidopsis react to stress before in other harsh environments, such as when soil carries excess salt or heavy metals, according to the release. (kmuw.org)
  • The reality is that as growing season temperatures continue to increase, the yield hit caused by photorespiration will also increase," said co-author Paul South , a USDA-ARS postdoctoral researcher in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois . (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Deficiency of a plastidial adenylate kinase in Arabidopsis results in elevated photosynthetic amino acid biosynthesis and enhanced growth. (mpg.de)
  • Our multi-discipline research project has successfully developed a lighting system to replace the nutritional value lost when plant food is grown indoors, away from UV light. (ucc.ie)
  • The required gene was inserted into Arabidopsis plant and then successfully grown in the safflower. (thefishsite.com)
  • Arabidopsis thaliana seeds were taken to the Moon on the Chang'e 4 lander in 2019, as part of a student experiment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this study, the impact of high energy content on the sRNA profiles of Arabidopsis is reported. (biomedcentral.com)
  • People around the country - and in fact around the world - have settled on Arabidopsis as their main, front-and-center model organism to study. (learner.org)
  • He then began his graduate work in Dr. Guojing Li's lab to study the plant stress-resistance signaling pathway in Arabidopsis and soybean. (nih.gov)
  • This paper reports on our research that shows that tocopherols are increased in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana when exposed to increased levels of UV-B. Increased levels of tocopherols are shown to play a role in UV protection of the plant. (ucc.ie)
  • An imaging robot designed to take consistent, well-lit images of agar plates on which we commonly grow the model plant Arabidopsis. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Previous studies increased H-protein levels in Arabidopsis, a small model plant used in laboratory experiments. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Arabidopsis (rockcress) is a genus in the family Brassicaceae. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arabidopsis is quite similar to the Boechera genus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eucalyptus is an important genus in industrial plantations throughout the world and is grown for use as timber, pulp, paper and charcoal. (biomedcentral.com)
  • [ 43 ] Different samples are grown in the presence of a different stable isotope labeled amino acid and the samples from each defined time point are combined after harvest. (medscape.com)
  • One such example is an enzyme "grown" in carrots and used to treat Gaucher's disease. (thefishsite.com)
  • A robot-based platform to measure multiple enzyme activities in Arabidopsis using a set of cycling assays: Comparison of changes of enzyme activities and transcript levels during diurnal cycles and in prolonged darkness. (mpg.de)
  • Improvements obtained with the individual trait described here, brings us one step closer to meeting the imminent food demands of 2050-Additionally, by combining this trait with other successful traits in RIPE, we can make the yield gains needed to feed this century's growing population," said Principal Investigator Christine Raines , a professor of plant molecular physiology at Essex. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • This gene acts like a molecular fountain of youth, keeping cells ever-young until it's time to grow up and commit to making flowers and other plant parts. (nih.gov)
  • One recently identified mechanism that regulates mRNA abundance is RNA silencing, and pioneering work in Arabidopsis thaliana and other genetic model organisms helped define this process. (upenn.edu)
  • northwestern Italy and presumably extinct in adjacent SW Switzerland) Arabidopsis suecica (Fries) Norrlin (Fennoscandinavia and the Baltic region) Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, several studies have also shown that KU70 and KU80 are responsible for further cellular actions such as telomere maintenance and chromosome stability in several organisms including Arabidopsis. (bham.ac.uk)
  • While the abundance of many stress-induced miRNAs is unaltered, the abundance of some miRNAs related to plant growth and development (miR172 and miR319) is elevated in the fast-growing lines. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A 3D printed, microfluidic flow cell designed to deliver liquid hormone, chemical or nutrient treatments to a single Arabidopsis root, while under observation on a confocal microscope. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • They grew samples of Arabidopsis in a laboratory chamber under carefully controlled environmental conditions. (ucalgary.ca)
  • You can grow it in a small space and it grows quickly," Nikolau explained of Arabidopsis, "so you can produce six to eight generations in a year. (labmanager.com)
  • This is how small building blocks of DNA may be eliminated or copied over and over again, causing the centromeres to grow or shrink and diversify from one another. (mpg.de)
  • 14. pep2pro: a new tool for comprehensive proteome data analysis to reveal information about organ-specific proteomes in Arabidopsis thaliana. (nih.gov)
  • Once a modification has been proven to be effective in tobacco, the same approach can be applied to food crops that are needed to feed our growing population. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • This is the first time that the H-protein has been evaluated in a crop in real-world growing conditions. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • will be followed by optical observation of 1g reference samples and samples grown under microgravity. (nasa.gov)
  • In the last two decades, Arabidopsis thaliana has gained much interest from the scientific community as a model organism for research on numerous aspects of plant biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using Team Science to Build Communities Around Data As the data portals grow and evolve, the research communities further expand around them. (doe.gov)
  • Gassmann is conducting research on the fast-growing Arabidopsis plant, which features a gene similar to the targeted grape gene. (scienceblog.com)
  • Why did you choose to use Arabidopsis in your research? (learner.org)
  • Arabidopsis has been adopted by the plant research community as its flagship organism. (learner.org)
  • At UTEP, Eduardo grew passionate about biomedical research through the guidance of his mentors and his participation in the Undergraduate Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (U-RISE) program. (nih.gov)
  • In 2014, Keith Pezzoli, Ph.D., of the UCSD Superfund Research Center, began a partnership with Ocean View Growing Grounds, a community garden on a former brownfield in southeast San Diego. (nih.gov)
  • Neurons and plant root cells may grow using a similar mechanism. (nih.gov)
  • Arabidopsis has a gene comparable to atlastin called Root Hair Defective 3 (RHD3). (nih.gov)
  • Mutations affecting RHD3 cause the plant to grow short, wavy root hairs. (nih.gov)
  • As multicellular organisms grow, positional information is continually needed to regulate the pattern in which cells are arranged. (nih.gov)