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7 unusual facts about Arabidopsis thaliana


Adenylate kinase

Enhanced growth and elevated photosynthetic amino acid is associated with plastidial adenylate kinase deficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center

The Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) was established at The Ohio State University in September, 1991.

Beta-chamigrene synthase

The recombinant enzyme from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana produces (+)-alpha-barbatene, (+)-thujopsene and (+)-beta-chamigrene.

Coleochaete

They are easy to culture and techniques that have been used to study Arabidopsis thaliana are now being applied to the Coleochaete.

Isopentenyl-diphosphate delta isomerase

Mutations in IDI1, the gene that codes for IPP isomerase 1, have been implicated in decreased viability in a number of organisms, including the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

Pectinesterase

Recently, the systematic sequencing of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome has led to the identification of 66 open reading frames that are annotated as pectinesterases, most of which are encoded as large pre-proproteins.

Photolyase

Proteins containing this domain also include Arabidopsis thaliana cryptochromes 1 and 2, which are blue light photoreceptors that mediate blue light-induced gene expression and modulation of circadian rhythms.


Hyaloperonospora parasitica

For instance, the taxonomically correct name of the parasite of the well-known model organism Arabidopsis thaliana is Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis, not H. parasitica, whereas the pathogen of Brassica has to be called Hyaloperonospora brassicae.

Information Hyperlinked over Proteins

The network presented in iHOP currently contains 28.4 million sentences and 110,000 genes from over 2,700 organisms, including Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Danio rerio, Arabidopsis thaliana, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli.

Mir-160 microRNA precursor family

In molecular biology, mir-160 is a microRNA that has been predicted or experimentally confirmed in a range of plant species including Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress) and Oryza sativa (rice).

Mir-395 microRNA precursor family

mir-395 is a non-coding RNA called a microRNA that was identified in both Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa computationally and was later experimentally verified.

Mir-399 microRNA precursor family

mir-399 is a microRNA that was identified in both Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryza sativa computationally and was later experimentally verified.

Polyneuridine-aldehyde esterase

This enzyme is found in various forms in plant species such as Arabidopsis thaliana, Glycine max (soybean), Vitis vinifera (wine grape), and Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) among others.

Small nucleolar RNA R44/J54/Z268 family

These snoRNAs appear to be plant specific and were identified in Arabidopsis thaliana and rice Oryza sativa (snoRNAs Z268 and J54).

Turnip crinkle virus

It has been shown to infect various types of plant species (including Nicotiana benthamiana) including the common plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana.


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