25. Weigel gave a talk titled "Imperfect plants in an imperfect world,” which explored his research group’s work on genetic variation in the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana. Weigel first explained ...
Two small molecules that are produced by the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are shown to have the opposite effect on how fast its leaves age. The molecules are peptides, short chains of amino acids.
For example, plants need boron, which is taken into the ... University's Graduate School of Agriculture identified a mutant line of Arabidopsis thaliana in which the boric acid channels are ...