CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have discovered the invasive garlic mustard plant, over time, loses its primary weapon -- a fungus-killing toxin it injects into the soil.
Very slight differences in a family of genes regulating spiciness in wild mustard plants determine not only the degree of heat but also a plant’s prospects of survival.
... control these rhythmic patterns of growth, the research team turned to Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny mustard plant used as a laboratory model by plant geneticists. Because Arabidopsis ...
... is one of the most widely used condiments on the planet. Prized for its oils, mustard plants grow wild in North Africa ... . During processing, the useful oils are extracted from the mustard plant, leaving mustard seed meal, or MSM ...
... , industrial materials, and new medicines. The genes, proteins, and other traits of this fast-growing, tiny mustard plant reside in a vast database dubbed ...
... focused on the role of selenium hyperaccumulation in Stanleya pinnata (prince's plume), a wildflower related to mustard plants. Although low levels of selenium ...
... is found worldwide and is related to the cabbage, radish and mustard plant family. Because of its genetic makeup, it has been used for decades ... for studies in the cellular and molecular biology of flowering plants. The multi-institutional research team says these findings ...
... a mutated strain of the standard research plant Arabidopsis thaliana -- mustard weed. The petals have no ... ' flowers and comparing them to normal mustard plants under scanning electron microscopes, the researchers ...
... , AraNet contains over 1 million linkages of the 19,600 genes in the tiny, experimental mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We made a map ...
... reproduce sexually. Vielle-Calzada studied apomixis in Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering mustard plant with a compact and well understood genome ...
... in the proper nutrient. These membrane proteins make up some 20-30% of the proteins in Arabidopsis, a relative of the mustard plant. The team uses a screen called the mating ...
... root development in Arabidopsis, a highly-studied mustard plant. Although they still don't ... developmental role in sharpening the boundaries that define one plant tissue from another. "To our knowledge, this is the first solid ...
... department at Duke. She and colleagues created the switch by genetically inserting two proteins from a mustard plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, into yeast cells ...
... and communicate their presence to the nucleus are important weapons in the plant's disease resistance strategy. Researchers at the University ... , which helps to moderate the immune response of the wild mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana to the bacterial pathogen ...
... research: Arabidopsis thaliana, an unassuming, weedy plant in the mustard family, and Drosophila melanogaster, familiar ... , he went out into the field and started looking for mustard plants that had flies living in and on them. "One of the first ...
