Plants and algal depend on photosynthesis that happens inside chloroplasts to manufacture the complex organic molecules they require as a source of energy. Model plants have been widely studied and used in plant biology, due to the features of relatively small genome and short lifecycle, as well as they are highly homologous with other complex plants.
For assisting researchers making greater breakthrough, Lifeasible provides gene editing services in chloroplasts of model plants.
One of the best-known model plants is Arabidopsis thaliana, also called thale cress, mouse-ear cress or Arabidopsis. With relatively short lifecycle (can be completed in six weeks), A. thaliana is widely used in plant biology and genetics. It was the first plant to have its genome sequenced, since then, it has been widely used as a model plant in molecular biology.
A. thaliana is widely used in the study of plant physiology, such as the genetic basis of photosynthesis, flowering and metabolism. Besides, many model systems have been developed to understand the subdiscipline of plant pathology, which is the interaction between plants and pathogens causing disease.
The genome of chloroplast in A. thaliana is a circular DNA composed of 154,478 bp with a total of 87 potential protein-coding genes, which is a size typically encountered in most flowering plants. Meanwhile, the translated proteins from protein-coding genes are highly similar to those in Nicotiana tabacum and other plants. Therefore, studies in model plants can make great contribution to reveal the functional genomics in higher plants.
Lifeasible provides gene editing services in chloroplast for assisting researchers studying mechanism of all vital activities in chloroplast, including gene knock-in and gene knock-out services. Our experienced scientists dedicate to provide trustable and satisfying services for our customers.
Lifeasible offers gene editing services in model plants including but not limited to follows.
| Species | Introduction | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Arabidopsis thaliana | Also called the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis. It's the most popular model plants. | Small genome size; short life cycle |
| Nicotiana tabacum | Known as tobacco, is the model plant of plant-pathogen studies. As well as chloroplast genomic studies. | Small genome size |
| Oryza sativa | Commonly known as rice. It's the model plant of cereal biology. | Small genome size |
| Populus trichocarpa | Known as cottonwood. It's model plant in forest genetics and woody plant studies. | Small genome size; fast grow |
| Selaginella moellendorffii | Remnant of an ancient lineage of vascular plants, it's key to understand the evolution of land plants. | Small genome size |
| Brachypodium distachyon | Commonly called purple false brome or stiff brome. It's model for temperate cereals. | Small genome size; short life cycle; efficient transformation system |
| Setaria viridis | Known as green foxtail, green bristlegrass and wild foxtail millet. It's model grass for C4 photosynthesis. | Small genome size; C4 photosynthesis |
| Lotus japonicus | Model plant od legume that is used to study nitrogen fixation. | Small genome size; short life cycle |
| Lemna gibba | Smallest flowering plant with a common name "duckweed". | Small genome size; fast grow |
| Zea mays | Known as corn and maize. It's model plant of cereal. | Large chromosome pairs; large number of transposons (jumping genes) |
We offer gene knock-in service in chloroplast for customers who need overexpressed or knocked-in chloroplasts of model plants for further research.
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