Arabidopsis thaliana Common Name: Mouse-ear Cress or Thale Cress

Reason for Use as a Model: Small genome, easily grown in lab, self-fertile (does not require a pollinator)
Year of Genome Sequence: 2000 (first plant to have its genome sequenced) |
Brachypodium distachyon
Common Name:Purple False Brome

Reason for Use as a Model: Small genome, small physical size, self-fertile, grass family, Monocot.
Year of Genome Sequence: 2010 |
Lotus japonicus
Japanese common name: Miyakogusa

Reason for Use as a Model: Nitrogen fixer, different symbiotic relationship from Medicago |
Medicago truncatula
Common Name: Barrel Clover

Reason for Use as a Model: Nitrogen fixer, different symbiotic relationship from Lotus, small genome and physical size. |
Picea abies
Common Name: Norway Spruce

Reason for Use as a Model: Conifer, used for somatic embryogenesis. |
Selaginella moellendorffii
Common Name: Spikemoss

Reason for Use as a Model: Smallest genome of any plant species, lycophyte - a primitive vascular plant.
Year of Genome Sequence: 2008 |
Populus trichocarpa
Common Name:Western Balsam Poplar

Reason for Use as a Model: Tree, important in paper manufacturing.
Year of Genome Sequence: 2006 (first tree genome sequenced) |
Physcomitrella patens (Moss)

Reason for Use as a Model: Non-vascular plant, used for investigating tip growth and cell polarity.
Year of Genome Sequence: 2006 |
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Green alga)

Reason for Use as a Model: Single-celled alga. Study of its flagellar system has been important in revealing the basis of some human ciliary diseases.
Year of Genome Sequence: 2010 |
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