Arabidopsis thaliana

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Arabidopsis thaliana (common Thale cress) is a small weed which has been chosen as the primary model organism for studying plant molecular genetics.

The features which make the plant a suitable model organism include;

  1. Large supply of the plants available
  2. Fully sequenced genome (roughly 140 million nucleotide pairs)
  3. Production of thousands of offspring per plant after 8-10 weeks
  4. Use of mutagenic chemicals to produce mutants (easy genetic manipulation)



References

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  1. ↑ Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J., Raff M., Roberts K. and Walter P. (2008) Molecular Biology of the cell, 5th edition, New York: Garland Science page 36
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