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- noun Any
cress (or related plant) of the genusArabidopsis
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- noun a genus of the mustard family having white or yellow or purplish flowers; closely related to genus Arabis
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Examples
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The result, reported online yesterday in the journal Nature by Dr. Robert E. Pruitt, Dr. Susan J. Lolle and colleagues at Purdue, has been found in a single species, the mustardlike plant called arabidopsis that is the standard laboratory organism of plant geneticists.
Archive 2005-03-20 Steve Sailer 2005
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The result, reported online yesterday in the journal Nature by Dr. Robert E. Pruitt, Dr. Susan J. Lolle and colleagues at Purdue, has been found in a single species, the mustardlike plant called arabidopsis that is the standard laboratory organism of plant geneticists.
Everything you know is wrong Steve Sailer 2005
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Given that as ubiquitous a plant as arabidopsis displays such renown adaptability that every 10th gene serves no function, I'd sure be interested in whether choanoflagellates need those higher-organism genes.
Bird Teeth 2008
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Hala M, Cole R, Synek L, Drdova E, Pecenkova T, et al. (2008) An exocyst complex functions in plant cell growth in arabidopsis and tobacco.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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In viewing this mechanism across various arabidopsis plants that had been mutated to achieve different N-glycan structures, the researchers found one particular N-glycan that was critical in making sure that the receptor molecules can recognize the targeted bacteria molecule, he said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in
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That's the idea behind a study to observe a specific bacteria that infects tomatoes but normally does not bother the common laboratory plant arabidopsis.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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In this study, the team was trying to figure out how a plant defends itself rather than how it gets sick, said Koiwa, who provided about 10 different lines of mutant arabidopsis plants grown in his lab at Texas A
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Dr. Hisashi Koiwa collaborated with colleagues in Germany and Switzerland to examine the immune capabilities of different mutations of the arabidopsis plant.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Hyaloperonospora arabidopsis and Phytophthora infestans, has demonstrated that the corresponding Avr effectors are secreted proteins that share a common RXLR (Arg-X-Leu-Arg) motif downstream from the signal peptide
fbharjo commented on the word arabidopsis
arabidopsis (read examples above) is iroquoisy?
It fits well on two recent lists of Ruzuzu
mustard & model-organisms
February 3, 2013