... and Arabidopsis genomes as well as that emerging from the maize genome sequencing project. Up until recently, the thale cress, Arabidopsis, has been the most widely used model organism ...
... for Developmental Biology have investigated the effects that the transcription factors of the TCP family have on the growth and aging of the thale cress model plant (Arabidopsis thaliana ...
... such flower-inducing genes. They have deactivated them in thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a typical annual. The VIB researchers found that mutant plants can no longer ...
... subspecies. A report in Science describes one more speciation gene, this time in two sub-species of thale cress plants. In this case, the barrier to reproduction ...
... . This plant, commonly known as thale cress or mouse-ear cress, is widely used as a model organism for studying higher plants. While Tschaplinski ...
... mission to be launched in October include specimens of thale cress and brewer's yeast, and a microbe known as Conan the Bacterium. Together with several other microscopic organisms ...
... colleagues at LMU Munich have been studying how this is accomplished in the thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana. "It turns out that, depending on lighting conditions, photosynthesis can rapidly switch between two ...
... in root branching. Their study object was the common thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana. In addition, they showed that two proteins that are crucial for embryo development also play ...
... , have investigated how this process is controlled. Based on their studies of the thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, they have succeeded in demonstrating ... publication on March 10, 2010) In the seed of the thale cress, the embryo forms from the fertilised egg ...
... this surprising discovery in a series of complex experiments using thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a biological reference ... 's effect on plant growth were already known. In the thale cress experiments, which concentrated on the growth zone ...
... studied the Spatula gene in a weed known as thale cress and found that when levels of the gene were low, the plant leaves grew almost twice as much at lower ...
... formation of photosystem II in the model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) and in the cyanobacterial species ... for the first steps in the construction of Photosystem II. In thale cress mutants that lack PAM68, however ...
... not leave anything to chance. The model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis), for instance, uses three signalling ... pathways, that is, SPOROCYTELESS and SPL8. Without SPL8, the thale cress cannot produce mature pollen ...
... . To defend themselves, they have developed sophisticated chemical defense mechanisms. Plants of the mustard family, such as thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), produce glucosinolates ...
... on a simplified system. Instead of carrying out their experiments with thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) embryos, they worked ... this type of regulation occurs in other developmental processes in thale cress remains to be investigated," says Steffen Lau ...
