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Alok Mahendroo

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Mar 14, 2011, 12:20:57 PM3/14/11
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Dear friends,
Another one from the fields.. mustard family...??

Location Kalatope, Chamba
Altitude 2100 mt
Habitat: Periphery of the fields
Habit : Herb
Season : March
Height: 4-5 inches
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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 14, 2011, 12:34:40 PM3/14/11
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Perhaps Arabidopsis thaliana, the botanical wonder. The only species other than man whose genome is thoroughly analysed.


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tanay bose

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Mar 14, 2011, 3:16:52 PM3/14/11
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Arabidopsis thaliana
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Rashida Atthar

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Mar 15, 2011, 9:07:53 AM3/15/11
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Thnakyou for this important information Sir and Alok ji for the nice pictures. Any particular reasons Sir  for why this plant genome is analysed thoroughly ?
 
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Gurcharan Singh

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Mar 15, 2011, 9:54:07 AM3/15/11
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Rashida ji
These pages from my book should answer your question.


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Bhatt Sweta

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Mar 15, 2011, 10:01:14 AM3/15/11
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From: Bhatt Sweta <bhatt...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:64988] Kalatope id al140311a
To: Rashida Atthar <atthar....@gmail.com>


These might be the probable reasons
1. Annual plant; so one can observe all the phenological stages within a years span. Acutally Arabidopsis can complete its entire life cycle in six weeks. The central stem that produces flowers grows after about three weeks, and the flowers naturally self-pollinate. In the lab Arabidopsis may be grown in petri plates or pots, under fluorescent lights or in a greenhouse--which makes it easy to study the entire plant in a short span as well
2. Earlier it was thought to have the smallest genome among the flowering plants - this might have led the scientist to take it up for research (now the plant to have the smallest genome is the Genus Genlisea, Lamiales with 63.4 Mbp vs 157 of Arabidopsis thaliana)
3. Only 5 pair of Chromosomes, convenience in studying them
4. The small size of the plant is convenient for cultivation in a small space and it produces many seeds.
5. Further, the selfing nature of this plant assists genetic experiments.
6. Finally, the plant is well suited for light microscopy analysis as the young seedlings on the whole, and their roots in particular, are relatively translucent.
7. This, together with their small size, facilitates live cell imaging using both fluorescence and laser scanning microscopy.
8. By wet mounting seedlings in water or in culture media, plants may be imaged un-invasively, obviating the need for fixation and sectioning and allowing time-lapse measurements.

Each of the above criteria leads to Arabidopsis thaliana being valued as a genetic model organism.

These are some of the reasons which (might have) led to selection of the plant for the Genome Research Project.


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Bhatt Sweta

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Mar 15, 2011, 10:02:30 AM3/15/11
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Thanks for sharing the information Sir.

Regards,
Shweta

Rashida Atthar

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Mar 15, 2011, 10:22:36 AM3/15/11
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Thankyou very much Sir, very, very interesting reading these pages.
 
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Rashida.  

Alok Mahendroo

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Mar 15, 2011, 11:25:28 AM3/15/11
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Thanks Gurcharan ji and Tanay ji... looks like I got a genome celebrity
in my vicinity.... :)
Sincere regards
Alok

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