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- small flowering plant
- widely used as a model plant organism
- cultivated in a restricted space
- Small size of genome
- Rapid generation time
- Ease with which mutations can be made
- 5 chromosomes mapped
- beneficial for detailed molecular genetic analysis
- Successfully sequenced genome in the year 2000
Short life cycle
Short life cycle
- Life cycle is only 6-8 weeks!!
- Many progeny (offspring=seeds) produced
- 6 generations produced in a year
- Seed goes from germination to maturation
- Can be transformed with ease
- Can be manipulated
- Scientists can use this information to manipulate plants in their environment
- E.g. Making certain plants more tolerable of environmental stresses such as heat
- Extensive research has bought Arabidopsis along way
- 1930's, the potential of Arabidopsis Thaliana was discovered
- By a man called Friedrich Laibach
- Scientists then took interest in Arabidopsis and started working together
- Researchers were encouraged to study more traditional model organisms
- Such as the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly)
- This caused high competition
- Instead geneticists saw potential in Arabidopsis Thaliana
- Soon the A.Thaliana community started working together to the advancement of the plant