The Arabidopsis thaliana, world’s most widely known and used plant model organism today, yet what Characteristics caught scientists attention and why was this small flowering plant chosen. Also under what circumstance had it preserved through that allowed it to be crowned the title model organism.
Arabidopsis first interested scientists as a self-pollinating plant that would completes its life cycle within 6 weeks, alongside the characteristic of the smaller genome size (1.2 × 108 bp) than other important species such as rice (4.2 × 108 bp) or wheat. (1.6 × 1010 bp) (King, Mulligan, & Stansfield, 2013) Alongside its small genome it had high mutation rate which offers an alternative to laboratory‐induced mutations in the study of plant function which is a vital characteristic …show more content…
This was fuelled by the belief that Arabidopsis may become a suitable organism to study diversity. This was due to the Arabidopsis’ ease of maintenance and small space needed to grow large populations of plants within research facilities. Its five chromosomes which are quite low for a flowering plant and its short growth and fruits with many seeds made this a suitable plant to use. (Leonelli, 2007) When Laibach retired in 1965, R belen became the person in charge of his Arabidopsis collection and began publication of the Arabidopsis Information Service, a yearly newsletter which acted a way to give updates on experiment with the first piece titled “Arabidopsis as the botanical Drosophila” However due to the focus of plant research at the time. Breeding significant organisms such as tobacco had used all funding available to plant biologists. Since at the time Arabidopsis was new and insignificant, many biologist paid little to no attention to it. (Leonelli,
Arabidopsis first interested scientists as a self-pollinating plant that would completes its life cycle within 6 weeks, alongside the characteristic of the smaller genome size (1.2 × 108 bp) than other important species such as rice (4.2 × 108 bp) or wheat. (1.6 × 1010 bp) (King, Mulligan, & Stansfield, 2013) Alongside its small genome it had high mutation rate which offers an alternative to laboratory‐induced mutations in the study of plant function which is a vital characteristic …show more content…
This was fuelled by the belief that Arabidopsis may become a suitable organism to study diversity. This was due to the Arabidopsis’ ease of maintenance and small space needed to grow large populations of plants within research facilities. Its five chromosomes which are quite low for a flowering plant and its short growth and fruits with many seeds made this a suitable plant to use. (Leonelli, 2007) When Laibach retired in 1965, R belen became the person in charge of his Arabidopsis collection and began publication of the Arabidopsis Information Service, a yearly newsletter which acted a way to give updates on experiment with the first piece titled “Arabidopsis as the botanical Drosophila” However due to the focus of plant research at the time. Breeding significant organisms such as tobacco had used all funding available to plant biologists. Since at the time Arabidopsis was new and insignificant, many biologist paid little to no attention to it. (Leonelli,