thale

This plant, commonly known as thale cress or mouse-ear cress, is widely used as a model organism for studying higher plants.

dailyindia.com News Feed 2009

The Advanced Plant EXperiments on Orbit – Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene Expression System APEX-TAGES investigation uses Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress that has genetically modified so it can glow.

Glowing Plants Helps Biological Studies on ISS | Universe Today 2010

“On scrubby flatland outside Copenhagen Airport,” we read, “on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines,” their biotech start-up company, Aresa, is growing large patches of thale-cress that have been genetically modified “so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide — a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals.”

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

“On scrubby flatland outside Copenhagen Airport,” we read, “on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines,” their biotech start-up company, Aresa, is growing large patches of thale-cress that have been genetically modified “so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide — a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals.”

Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

So: after surveying the weather and cosulting your manual on the wind dispersal pattern, you spray the special spores onto a minefield using a hydroseeder, the same one that groundskeepers to seed green grass on golf courses, and which Ares also used to cover their experimental field with thale-cress.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Aresa, a Denmark-based biotech company, had genetically modified thale-cresses and later tobacco to change color when their roots come in contact with a chemical released into the soil by decaying explosives.

Genetically Modified Ordnance 2009

Locating buried bombs is one thing; rendering them harmless is another, something which the thale-cress and Croatian bees are incapable of doing.

Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

You take Aresa's entire supply of altered thale-cress, Kezic's colonies of trained bees, Rigg's bomb-eating mushrooms, and every other pytho-Frankensteins we haven't yet heard about or still inside petri dishes unspliced and awaiting reconstruction.

Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

So: after surveying the weather and cosulting your manual on the wind dispersal pattern, you spray the special spores onto a minefield using a hydroseeder, the same one that groundskeepers to seed green grass on golf courses, and which Ares also used to cover their experimental field with thale-cress.

Vaux-le-Vicomte in the DMZ 2007

Aresa, a Denmark-based biotech company, had genetically modified thale-cresses and later tobacco to change color when their roots come in contact with a chemical released into the soil by decaying explosives.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009