Science news articles about 'plant arabidopsis thaliana'

  • Formula discovered for longer plant life

    ... and aging of the thale cress model plant (Arabidopsis thaliana). These transcription factors are regulated by the microRNA miR319. It was already known that miR319-regulated ...
  • Sequencing thousand and one genomes

    ... genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The entire genomes of two individuals of this species, one from Ireland, the other from Japan, have now been compared ...
  • Sequencing thousand and one genomes

    ... genomes of wild strains of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The entire genomes of two individuals of this species, one from Ireland, the other from Japan, have now been compared ...
  • When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help

    ... infected the leaves of the small flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana with a pathogenic bacterium, Pseudomonas syringae. Within a few days, the leaves of the infected ...
  • Tool helps identify gene function in soybeans

    ... , including maize and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. In the study, IPG scientists demonstrated the feasibility of this technique in the soybean. "Studying gene ...
  • Research breakthrough targets genetic diseases

    ... an expansion of a repeat pattern in the DNA of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana that has striking parallels to the DNA repeat ... defect caused by a triplet repeat expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana", also had implications beyond human diseases ...
  • Biologists find stem cell-like functions in other types of plant cells

    ... and rebuilding of organs. The scientists studied the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The species is a good candidate for study because researchers have previously identified all of the genes ...
  • Silencing of jumping genes in pollen

    ... cells in the pollen grain of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This technique was crucial in a study to be published ... in the adult plant, transposable elements are highly active in the pollen grain of Arabidopsis thaliana. Pollen ...
  • Silencing of jumping genes in pollen

    ... cells in the pollen grain of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This technique was crucial in a study to be published in the latest issue of the journal Cell, which describes ...
  • 'Green' plastics could help reduce carbon footprint

    ... molecular techniques, scientists are able to introduce three bacterial enzymes into the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. When combined with two enzymes ...
  • Sick plant suffering for Parkinson patients

    ... research plant Arabidopsis thaliana is currently a patient in a laboratory at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Researchers hope it can give ...
  • Is this the beginning of the end of plant breeding?

    ... into the second meiotic division—in the sexual plant Arabidopsis thaliana. By combining a mutation in this gene with two other previously described mutations—one that eliminates recombination ...
  • Hormone clue to root growth

    ... elongate as the root grows in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Now a paper appearing in Current Biology describes for first time how this hormone ...
  • From nerve roots to plant roots -- research on hereditary spastic paraplegia yields surprises

    ... used for agricultural research. The strange implication is that the plant, Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress), could prove useful for further research on HSP. "This study provides ...
  • Cucumber genome published

    ... , following the well-studied model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the poplar tree, grapevine, papaya, and the crops rice and sorghum. The sequencing effort ...

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