Arabidopsis thaliana
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q158695
Library of congress:
sh 88022562
Sources of Information
- Seed to seed, the secret life of plants, 2006:jkt. ("thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), the fruit fly of the plant world")
- Plants national database, July 24, 2006(Arabidopsis thaliana, mouseear cress. Plant synonyms Arabis thaliana, Sisymbrium thalianum)
- ITIS search, July 24, 2006(Arabidopsis thaliana. Common names: mouse-ear cress, mouseear cress)
- Web. 3(mouse-ear cress: a Eurasian herb (Arabidopsis thaliana) naturalized as a weed in the U.S.)
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Wikipedia description:
Arabidopsis thaliana, the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small plant from the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to Eurasia and Africa. Commonly found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land, it is generally considered a weed. A winter annual with a relatively short lifecycle, A. thaliana is a popular model organism in plant biology and genetics. For a complex multicellular eukaryote, A. thaliana has a relatively small genome of around 135 megabase pairs. It was the first plant to have its genome sequenced, and is an important tool for understanding the molecular biology of many plant traits, including flower development and light sensing.
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