What is Arabidopsis thaliana?
{{Italictitle}} {{taxobox |image = Arabidopsis thaliana.jpg |image_width = 250px |regnum = [[Plantae]] |unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]] |unranked_classis = [[Eudicots]] |unranked_ordo = [[Rosids]] |ordo = [[Brassicales]] |familia = [[Brassicaceae]] |genus = '''''Arabidopsis''''' |binomial = ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' |binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]) Heynh |range_map = Arabidopsis thaliana distribution.svg}} '''''Arabidopsis thaliana''''' is a small [[flowering plant]] native to Europe, Asia, and northwestern Africa. It is widely used as a [[model organism]] in plant [[genetics]]. Arabidopsis is a member of the [[mustard]] (''Brassicaceae'') family, which includes cultivated species such as [[cabbage]] and [[radish]]. It was the first plant [[genome]] to be [[DNA sequencing|sequenced]], completed in 2000 by the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative.<ref>{{cite journal| author=The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative| title=Analysis of the genome sequence of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana| journal=Nature| year=2000| volume=408| pages=796–815| doi=10.1038/35048692 | pmid=11130711| issue=6814| s2cid=205012145}}</ref> The most up-to-date version of the ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' genome is maintained by The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR).<ref>{{Cite web| title= TAIR - genome annotation| url=http://www.arabidopsis.org/portals/genAnnotation/gene_structural_annotation/annotation_data.jsp}}</ref> Much work has been done to find out what its 27,000 [[gene]]s and 35,000 [[protein]]s do.<ref>{{cite web| title= Integr8 - ''A. thaliana'' genome statistics| url=http://www.ebi.ac.uk/integr8/OrganismStatsAction.do;jsessionid=08E9058B5B688A4F7FF7D161CB9E36A4?orgProteomeId=3}}</ref> ''Arabidopsis'' is a popular tool for understanding the [[molecular biology]] of many plant [[Trait (biology)|traits]], including [[flower]] development and [[phototropism|light sensing]]. == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Brassicaceae]] [[Category:Model organisms]] [[Category:Genetics experiments]]