arabidopsis

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"Arabidopsis is like the lab rat of the plant science world. It has a short life cycle, a small genome, small size, and produces A LOT of teeny tiny seeds (which get EVERYWHERE when you harvest them!). And it is really easy to make transgenic versions of these plants. These factors make it an ideal model plant, and its use in the study of plant genetics, physiology, and biochemistry is widespread."

Writer: Dominique

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Date: Dec 9 2014 7:10 PM

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"Is it true your team will be working on Arabidopsis genetics? Arabidopsis is a good 'model plant,' because it is of a manageable size, flowers quickly, and has a tiny genome. Some scientists criticize using Arabidopsis because it doesn't represent other plants very well (compare it to a corn cob or a houseplant!). On the other hand, plant researchers that study Arabidopsis have opened treasure trove of plant knowledge. My view is that Arabidopsis is like a Wikipedia page: it is short, highly informative when you want the basics fast, but occasionally contains misleading information."

Writer: John Gottula

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Date: Dec 9 2014 7:12 PM

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"Arabidopsis is like multicellular animals in possessing many genes for cell communication and signal transduction (1,900 genes out of 18,000 classified), but the specific details of these gene sets are very different, as discussed in Chapter 15."

Writer: Bruce Alberts et al.

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Date: Dec 9 2014 7:15 PM

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"We started with arabidopsis thaliana, which is the lab rat of the plant world. It's very useful to us because it has a completely sequenced genome and a lot of other genetic resources."

Writer: Heidi Appel

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Date: Jan 10 2017 9:09 AM