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Arabidopsis was the first plant genome to be sequenced, and is a popular tool for understanding the molecular biology of many plant traits, including flower development and light sensing.
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Arabidopsis was the first plant to have its genome sequenced.
The ordering system for ABRC was incorporated into The Arabidopsis Information Resource ( TAIR ) database in June 2001 whilst NASC has always ( since 1991 ) hosted its own ordering system and genome browser.
In 1841, the plant was renamed Arabidopsis thaliana by German botanist Gustav Heynhold in honor of Thal.
It was the first plant genome to be sequenced, completed in 2000 by the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative.
The first International Arabidopsis Conference was held in 1965, in Göttingen, Germany.
The breakthrough year for arabidopsis as the preferred model plant came in 1986, when T-DNA-mediated transformation was first published, and this coincided with the first gene to be cloned and published in Arabidopsis.
Arabidopsis was used extensively in the study of the genetic basis of phototropism, chloroplast alignment, and stomatal aperture and other blue light-influenced processes.
The biosynthetic pathway was elucidated by Japanese researchers and later shown to be correct through the analysis of BR biosynthesis mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana, tomatoes, and peas.
Recently, a second, enantiocomplementary dirigent protein was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, which directs enantioselective synthesis of (-)- pinoresinol.
In 1980, researchers discovered that the HY4 gene of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana was necessary for the plant's blue light sensitivity, and when the gene was sequenced in 1993, it showed high sequence homology with photolyase, a DNA repair protein activated by blue light.
A double loss-of-function mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana Early Flowering 3 ( elf3 ) and Cry2 genes delays flowering under continuous light was shown to accelerates it during long and short days, which suggests that Arabidopsis CRY2 may play a role in accelerating flowering time during continuous light.
TILLING was introduced in 2000, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Scientists at the University of York developed a weed ( Arabidopsis thaliana ) that contains genes from bacteria that can clean up TNT and RDX-explosive contaminants from the soil: It was hoped that this weed would eliminate this pollution.
However the weed Arabidopsis thaliana was not tough enough to withstand the environment on military test grounds and research is continuing with the University of Washington to develop a tougher native grass.
According to the study, prior to its publication the smallest known angiosperm ( flowering plant ) genome was that of Arabidopsis thaliana at 157 Megabase pairs ( Mbp ).
Arabidopsis and first
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.
For example, the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant to be have its entire genome sequenced, has experienced at least two additional rounds of whole genome duplication since the duplication shared by the core eudicots.
Arabidopsis and plant
One of the latest developments is the identification of a plant gene, At-DBF2, from Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny weed that is often used for plant research because it is very easy to grow and its genetic code is well mapped out.
Among the thousands of completed genome sequencing projects include those for mouse, rice, the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the puffer fish, and bacteria like E. coli.
:* Arabidopsis thaliana, currently the most popular model plant.
The flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana has been called the " Rosetta Stone of flowering time ".
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.
Arabidopsis thaliana ( A-ra-bi-dóp-sis tha-li-á-na ; thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis ) is a small flowering plant native to Europe, Asia, and northwestern Africa.
A winter annual with a relatively short life cycle, Arabidopsis is a popular model organism in plant biology and genetics.
Arabidopsis thaliana has been successfully implemented in the study of the subdicipline of plant pathology, that is, the interaction between plants and disease-causing pathogens.
However, with the virulent bacteria applied to Arabidopsis plant leaves in the experiment, the bacteria released the chemical coronatine, which forced the stomata open again within a few hours.
* December 14 – The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.
A healthy Arabidopsis thaliana plant ( left ) next to an auxin signal-transduction mutant
* Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre, the European collection and distribution centre for the model plant Arabidopsis
The plant homologs were discovered by Pamela Ronald in 1995 ( rice XA21 ) and Thomas Boller in 2000 ( Arabidopsis FLS2 ).
This method is used widely to study gene function in plants, such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana does not form either symbiosis, making M. truncatula an important tool for studying these processes.
Arabidopsis and genome
Sometimes, the genome arrangement facilitates the sequencing of the model organism's genome, for example, by being very compact or having a low proportion of junk DNA ( e. g. yeast, Arabidopsis, or pufferfish ).
Its genome sequence, along with a wide range of information concerning Arabidopsis, is maintained by the TAIR database.
Arabidopsis thaliana has a relatively small genome for a complex, multicellular, eukaryote of approximately 135 megabase pairs ( Mbp ).
The small size of its genome makes Arabidopsis thaliana useful for genetic mapping and sequencing — with about 157 mega base pairs and five chromosomes, arabidopsis has one of the smallest genomes among plants.
The most up-to-date version of the A. thaliana genome is maintained by the Arabidopsis Information Resource ( TAIR ).
Examples of unexpected but recently confirmed ancient genome duplications include baker's yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ), mustard weed / thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ), rice ( Oryza sativa ), and an early evolutionary ancestor of the vertebrates ( which includes the human lineage ) and another near the origin of the teleost fishes.
* The full genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana is published in Nature.
* 6-phosphofructokinase of Arabidopsis thaliana at genome. jp
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Seed and DNA stocks can be obtained from NASC or the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center.
With the advent of genomic sequences for model systems such as Drosophila melanogaster, Arabidopsis thaliana and C. elegans many single nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNPs ) have now been identified that can be used as traits for mapping.
It is also possible to transform Arabidopsis thaliana by dipping their flowers into a broth of Agrobacterium: the seed produced will be transgenic.
Lab-on-a-chip devices could be used to characterize pollen tube guidance in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Gravitropic mutants have been identified that effect starch accumulation, such as those affecting the PGM1 gene in Arabidopsis, causing plastids-the presumptive statoliths-to be less dense and, in support of the starch-statolith hypothesis, less sensitive to gravity.
Capsella bursa-pastoris is closely related to the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana and is also used as a model organism due to the variety of genes expressed throughout its life cycle that can be compared to genes that are well studied in A. thaliana.
Arabidopsis is often used as a model organism to study gene expression in plants, while actual production may be carried out in maize, rice, potatoes, tobacco, flax or safflower.
The Arabidopsis roots are initially small and transparent, enabling every detail to be seen.
However, recent evidence from Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochrome also suggests that radical pairs can be generated by the light-independent dark reoxidation of Flavin protein by molecular oxygen through the formation of a spin-correlated FADH-superoxide radical pairs.
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