arabidopsis
IPA: ʌrˈæbɪdˈɑpsɪs
noun
- Any cress (or related plant) of the genus Arabidopsis
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Examples of "arabidopsis" in Sentences
- The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in
- 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.
- 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.
- Dr. Hisashi Koiwa collaborated with colleagues in Germany and Switzerland to examine the immune capabilities of different mutations of the arabidopsis plant.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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