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Growing and Pollinating Maize
Authors:
Sarah Hake
and
China Lunde
,
date:
05/05/2018,
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[Abstract]
Corn, also known as maize, has been a model organism for genetics since the 1900’s due to the ease of pollinations, large ...
Nuclear Transformation of
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
by Electroporation
Author:
Tyler M Wittkopp
,
date:
05/05/2018,
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The unicellular green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
is an important model organism for studying photosynthesis, acclimation to abiotic stress, cilia biology, and many other biological processes. Many molecular biology tools exist for ...
Isolation of Genomic DNA from
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Author:
Tyler M Wittkopp
,
date:
05/05/2018,
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87,
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
is a soil-dwelling eukaryotic green alga that is widely used as a laboratory model organism for research on photosynthesis, ciliary biology, lipid metabolism and many other aspects of cell biology and physiology. ...
Small-scale DNA Extraction Method for Maize and Other Plants
Author:
China Lunde
,
date:
03/20/2018,
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Corn, or maize, is a major cereal crop and model monocot. Two of its benefits are ease of pollination and tractable genetics. For a comparison of development between maize and the dicot model,
Arabidopsis
, see Lunde and Hake, 2005. For an ...
MTT Assay for Cytotoxicity Assessment in
Oryza sativa
Root Tissue
Authors:
Snehalata Majumdar
,
Titir Guha
and
Rita Kundu
,
date:
11/20/2017,
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1075,
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Cytotoxicity of different compounds are commonly evaluated by 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. This assay is mainly used to study cell viability in cell lines (Carmichael
et al.
, 1987). In this ...
Leaf Clearing Protocol to Observe Stomata and Other Cells on Leaf Surface
Author:
Nidhi Sharma
,
date:
09/05/2017,
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2040,
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In this protocol, leaves are cleared and fixed in an ethanol and acetic acid solution, and mounted in Hoyer’s solution. The cleared leaves are imaged under differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope. This protocol is beneficial for studying ...
Extraction of Root Apoplastic Wall Fluid for Apoplastic Peroxidase Activity Assay
Author:
Xiyan Li
,
date:
09/05/2011,
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9932,
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Plant roots secret a lot of peroxidases to counteract environmental influences. This protocol describes a way to extract root apoplastic wall fluid from Arabidopsis plants and to determine the peroxidase activity using guaiacol as substrate.
Arabidopsis
Growing Protocol – A General Guide
Author:
Xiyan Li
,
date:
09/05/2011,
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18064,
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Arabidopsis as the model organism for higher plants is widely studied among plant biology labs around the world. However, taking care of this tiny plant may not be trivial. Here is a general guide used for the Heven Sze lab at the University of ...
Infiltration of
Nicotiana benthamiana
Protocol for Transient Expression via
Agrobacterium
Author:
Xiyan Li
,
date:
07/20/2011,
view:
39096,
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Transient expression in tobacco plant (
Nicotiana benthamiana
) is used to determine the subcellular location of a protein of interest when tagged with a reporter such as green fluorescent protein (GFP), or to mass produce proteins without ...
Extract Genomic DNA from
Arabidopsis
Leaves (Can be Used for Other Tissues as Well)
Author:
Yongxian Lu
,
date:
07/05/2011,
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19091,
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This is a simple protocol for isolating genomic DNA from fresh plant tissues. DNA from this experiment can be used for all kinds of genetics studies, including genotyping and mapping. This protocol uses Edward’s extraction buffer to isolate DNA.