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Arabidopsis halleri

Arabidopsis halleri is a close relative of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, differing in at least two important ways.  First, unlike A. thaliana, A. haleri is [...]

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Eutrema salsugineum

E. salsugineum (formerly Thellungiella salsuginea) was originally selected as a model organism because of its ability, in the natural world, to function in saline, cold, and freezing conditions, and...

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Schrenkiella parvula

Schrenkiella parvula - a 7 chromosome member of the Brassicaceae - has an eXtreme ability, in the natural world, to function in the hypersaline conditions surrounding Lake Tuz in central Anatolia,...

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Arabidopsis lyrata

The eXtreme plant bona fides of Arabidopsis lyrata stem from its preference for sandy, gravelly, rocky or chasmophytic "soil". At the molecular level, its value has been greatest for its contribution...

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Flights of whimsy: Isatis tinctoria – no sequences but a great song

And now for something completely different… woad. This is stuff that I learned by accident (sort of) while preparing the real “science” page for Isatis tinctoria. [...]

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Isatis tinctoria (woad)

Isatis tinctoria, aka Isatis indigotica, has long been used as a source of the blue dye, indigo, and numerous phytopharmacological agents. As such, it has received a different kind of attention at the...

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Arabidopsis arenosa

A. arenosa is a wonderful model for understanding the mechanisms and effects of repeated genome duplication and hybridization events, and for studying ecological adaptation. It is found throughout...

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On the propagation of eXtreme nonsense

In the modern time, not quite like when I was a graduate student, the use of any non-model species (and “model” was not a word [...]

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