News tagged with model plant arabidopsis


Plants choose ammunition carefully

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Plants are anything but as defenceless as they might seem. Various plant hormones work together to specifically fend off attacks. Dutch researcher Antonio Leon-Reyes has now shown how these hormones cooperate. By 'consulting' ...


Hormone clue to root growth

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant roots provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients and anchorage. Understanding how roots grow and how hormones control that growth is crucial to improving crop yields, which will be necessary to ...





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Midget plant gets makeover

Midget plant gets makeover

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A tiny plant with a long name (Arabidopsis thaliana) helps researchers from over 120 countries learn how to design new crops to help meet increasing demands for food, biofuels, industrial materials, and ne ...


Research breakthrough targets genetic diseases

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cure for debilitating genetic diseases such as Huntington’s disease, Friedreich’s ataxia and Fragile X syndrome is a step closer to reality, thanks to a recent scientific breakthrough.


Controlling a sea of information

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created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Curators at one of the world’s most widely used biological databases, The Arabidopsis Information Resource, or TAIR, have joined forces with the journal Plant Physiology, to solve the “flood of information” dilemma. It is ...


UC Riverside biochemist to study how crops can increase protein production

Biochemists to study how crops can increase protein production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The small flowering plant Arabidopsis is widely used in laboratories as a model organism in plant biology.


New Breakthrough in Global Warming Plant Production

New Breakthrough in Global Warming Plant Production

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 8

Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases.


Simple genetic mechanism may be behind the origin of species

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created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some of the secrets behind the emergence of new species have been uncovered in a genetic study, conducted in collaboration with bioscientists at The University of Nottingham.


Nitric oxide regulates plants as well as people

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created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Nitric oxide has emerged as an important signaling molecule in plants - as in mammals including people. In studies of a tropical medicinal herb as a model plant, researchers have found that nitric oxide targets a number of ...


It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal Genetics, scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethyle ...


Expanded version of Phytozome.net released

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ...


Arabidopsis Cells

Scientists Identify Stem-Cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs

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created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plant stem-cells are master cells located at the tip of the stem and are part of a structure called the shoot apical meristem (SAM). Here, the stem cells—all clumped together—divide throughout ...



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