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Tag - Arabidopsis thaliana
Dale Maylea
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Arabidopsis thaliana – the botanist’s lab rat
What is Arabidopsis thaliana and why do botanists like it so much?
Michela Osnato
A trick of the light: Optimizing light quality conditions speeds plant growth
Model identifies optimal light conditions to manipulate the circadian clock.
Rachel Shekar
Plants can become less uniform by duplicating their genome
Though the experiment was limited to two genotypes of a single species, these findings support the idea that whole genome duplication can indeed increase plasticity.
Fi Gennu
Why are leaves always flat?
A new model uncovers the possible mechanisms underlying the robustness of flat leaf production.
Woodiness only indirectly responsible for embolism resistance in Arabidopsis
Its correlation with intervessel pit membrane thickness provides the missing functional link.
Erin Zimmerman
Scientists find a new chemical to induce plant defences
ssODNs are capable of inducing protection against pathogens through the activation of defence genes and promotion of stomatal closure.
Plastic plants?! Nanoplastics may be bad news for plants too.
More evidence that the damaging potential of small plastics needs to extend to terrestrial environments.
Liam Elliott
It’s epigenetics after all! How environmentally-induced traits might support plant ecosystems
Diversity of parental environments could have comparable effects to genetic diversity in Arabidopsis.
Short- and long-term responses to elevated carbon dioxide use the same genetic controls
Manipulating stomatal traits could produce more crops for dry regions.
A key protein may help trigger germination in Arabidopsis seeds
Seed germination is a critical step in the life cycle of flowering plants. Since seeds contain limited reserves, seed germination has to be tightly regulated to ensure that germination takes place in a suitable...
Alex Assiry
A close-up view of Cardmine hirsuta’s flight jacket
Being rooted, plants have very little opportunity to travel. They can as pollen to find a mate, and also as seeds. In the case of Cardamine hirsuta, that travel is explosive. The plant stores energy in the pericarp of...
The SAUR41 subfamily of genes is involved in cell expansion and salt tolerance
The SAUR41 genes are ABA inducible and active during seedling establishment.
Drought stress in Arabidopsis species
Water limitation is an important determinant of the distribution, abundance and diversity of plant species. Yet, little is known about how the response to limiting water supply changes among closely related plant...
