How roots control plant shoots
...at turns off leaf growth. First, they grew thale cress plants with the mutant form of BPS1 known as bps1....leaf growth, Van Norman and Sieburth treated thale cress plants with tiny amounts of a herbicide named fluridone, which inhibits production of carotenoids. W...Research gaining momentum by silencing genes
... and humans Arabidopsis thaliana or the mouse-ear cress (a member of the mustard family) is a weed that is cultivated in numerous labs. Indeed, due to its genetic simplicity - it contains 'only' 29,000 genes - it is the most widely studied plant. The DNA sequence of Arabidopsis has been known for several ...UNC plant researchers discover proteins interact to form hair-trigger protection against invaders
... Scientists study Arabidopsis, also known as thale cress or mouse-eared cress, because it is small and can produce five to six generations a year rather than just one or two like most crop plants. That rapid reproduction allows them to study the plant's genetics faster than they could with other species. U...Thale cress has a complicated defence technique against insect... various interactions. Van Oosten exposed thale cress to five different plant pests with various attack strategies: aphids, thrips, caterpillars, bacteria...