The first flowering plant to have its entire genome sequenced. Commonly known as thale cress, a relative of the mustard plant, it has become a model organism in plant biology research because Arabidopsis has almost all of the same genes as other flowering plants and has relatively little "non-coding" DNA.
small plant of the mustard family commonly used to study plant genetics and plant genomics.
Arabidopsis (rockcress) is a genus in the family Brassicaceae. They are small flowering plants related to cabbage and mustard. This genus is of great interest since it contains Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), one of the model organisms used for studying plant biology and the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced.
