In addition to the structural classification, plant lectins can also be subdivided in 2 classes depending on their expression pattern.
A simplified plant classification system, Plant GOSlim, has been applied to rice gene products (http://rice.plantbiology.msu.edu/GO.retrieval.shtml) based largely on homology with Arabidopsis proteins, which have been subject to relatively high quality annotation [16], [22], [34].
The chloroplast sequence carries important information for plant molecular systematics to study the taxonomic classification of plants.
A specific classification for plants is used in PlantsP (http://plantsp.genomics.purdue.edu/), a database dedicated to plant protein kinases and phosphatases [31], [32].
A case of mistaken identity dating back to the classification of plants pushed origanum majorana into the oregano family, where it has languished for nearly 250 years.
(Linnaeus's classification of plants based on their reproductive organs, stamens and pistils, fell prey to a similar attack. "Loathsome harlotry," one botanist called it).
For Clements, experimental taxonomy meant using transplant experiments and other ecological methods to investigate evolutionary processes and to improve the classification of plants.
Drawings were not simply ornaments to a text, but a necessity for accurate classification of plants and animals.
But in her second year, she became fascinated with the taxonomical classification of plants and botanical nomenclature.
At the U.K.'s Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, more than 60 staff scientists, postdocs, and Ph.D. students carry out research on the classification of plants.
