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  • noun Any cress (or related plant) of the genus Arabidopsis

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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in

    current.com top stories 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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