Arabidopsis thaliana

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Arabidopsis

Herbs annual , biennial, or perennial with stolons or woody caudex . Trichomes simple , mixed with stalked , 1-3-forked ones. Stems erect or decumbent , often several from base , usually glabrous above. Basal leaves rosulate, entire, toothed , or pinnately lobed . Cauline leaves petiolate or subsessile , entire, dentate , or rarely lyrate. Racemes few to several flowered, ebracteate . Fruiting pedicels ascending or divaricate or slightly reflexed . Sepals oblong , erect or ascending, glabrous or pubescent , base of lateral pair subsaccate or not. Petals white, pink, or purple; blade obovate , spatulate , or oblanceolate , apex obtuse or emarginate ; claw distinct or not. Stamens 6, erect, slightly tetradynamous ; filaments not dilated basally; anthers oblong, obtuse. Nectar glands confluent , subtending bases of filaments. Ovules 15-80 per ovary. Fruit dehiscent siliques, linear or cylindric , terete or flattened and latiseptate , shortly stipitate or subsessile; valves papery , veinless or midvein distinct, glabrous, smooth or somewhat torulose ; replum rounded ; septum complete ; style obsolete or to 1 mm; stigma capitate, entire. Seeds numerous , uniseriate , wingless or margined , oblong or ellipsoid , plump or flattened; seed coat minutely reticulate , mucilaginous or not when wetted; cotyledons accumbent or rarely incumbent .

Nine species: E and N Asia, Europe, North America; three species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Plains , mountain slopes , river banks, roadsides; near sea level to 2000 m. [2].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,701 meters (0 to 15,423 feet).[3]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Arabis thaliana Linnaeus • Crucifera Thaliana • Crucifera thaliana (L.) E. H. L. Krause • Hesperis Thaliana • Hesperis thaliana (L.) Kuntze • Sisymbrium thalianum (L.) Gaudin • Sisymbrium thalianum (L.) J. Gay & Monn. • Sisymbrium thalianum (L.) J. Gay Ex Monnard • Sisymbrium thalianum (Linnaeus) J. Gay & Monnard • Stenophragma thalianum (Linnaeus) Celakovsky.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Arabidopsis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. salsuginea (Saltwater Cress) · A. thaliana (Mouse-Ear Cress)

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Further Reading

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• A manual of the flora of northern Idaho /Carl Epling and Joe Ewan. 2 1941 1941. url p. 218.
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• BIOSPEX, Biological space experiments: a compendium of life sciences experiments carried on U.S. spacecraft / Michele Anderson; John A. Rummel, editor, Stanley Deutsch, editor. [Washington, D.C.]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office; 1979. url p. 147, p. 150, p. 263.
• Bartonia;proceedings of the Philadelphia botanical club. .. 47 - 51 1980 - 19 Philadelphia, Philadelphia Botanical Club, Academy of Natural Sciences. url p. 26, p. 35, p. 43, p. 69, p. 7, p. 76, p. 86, p. 9.
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• Biology: concepts and applications / Cecie Starr. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub., c1997. url p. 325, p. 424, p. 788.
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• Common and scientific names of weeds in Canada = Noms populaires et scientifiques des plantes nuisibles du Canada / Ottawa: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada = Agriculture et agroalimentaire Canada, c2000. url p. 114, p. 82.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 25 1925 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 241.
• Effects of carbon dioxide on the physiology and biochemistry of photosynthesis in soybean / by William J. Campbell Jr. 1986. url p. 17, p. 178.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• GBIF-Spain, Departamento de Biolog. Veg. II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid: MAF
• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences, Vascular plant collection of Jyvaskyla University Museum
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Botany registration database by Danish botanists
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Environment and Heritage Service - EHS Species Datasets
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Scottish Borders Biological Records Centre - SWT Scottish Borders Local Wildlife Site Survey data 1996-2000 - species information
• University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2648679
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Mus-338
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 3027485
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:133230-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 3769
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 23041
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 277970-1
• MoBot NameID: 4100029
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDBRA05010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ARTH
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 21880

Footnotes

1. Tai-yien Cheo, Lianli Lu, Guang Yang, Ihsan Al-Shehbaz & Vladimir Dorofeev "Arabidopsis". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 120. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Arabidopsis thaliana". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 120. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 503.500 meters (1,651.903 feet), Standard Deviation = 801.100 based on 16,169 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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