Arabidopsis

Arabidopsis thaliana
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Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly called arabidopsis, Thale Cress, or Mouse-ear Cress, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, is one of the model organisms for studying plant sciences, ...
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Arabidopsis is an angiosperm, a dicot from the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is popularly known as thale cress or mouse-ear cress.
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Arabidopsis salsuginea
Arabidopsis thaliana
Rockcress (Arabidopsis) are a genus of the Brassicaceae family. They are small flowering plants related to cabbage and mustard.
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Arabidopsis is popular as a model because it undergoes the same processes of growth, development, flowering, and reproduction as higher plants, yet its genome has about 30 times less DNA than a corn or human genome and very little repetitive DNA.
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Arabidopsis has 10,000 or so more genes than the fruit fly-Arabidopsis has almost as many genes as a human.
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Arabidopsis thaliana
: A small member of the mustard family (kitchen cress). It has a very small genome (130-140
Mbp
), five chromosomes and contains almost no repetitive DNA. Its genome will be completely sequenced by the end of 2000.
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In Arabidopsis thaliana, the Nedd8 pathway is required for SCF-mediated Auxin response (Pozo et al. 1998; Schwechheimer et al. 2001).
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One important exception to the rules of segregation has been documented in the progeny (F2) of Arabidopsis thaliana plants homozygous for recessive alleles of the HTH gene (ref).
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Model organisms for developmental biology include the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish Brachydanio rerio, the mouse Mus musculus, and the weed Arabidopsis thaliana.
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