Arabidopsis thaliana and Caenorhabditis elegans were chosen as representatives for plants and nematodes, respectively, because they are designated model species and many single gene studies as well as whole transcriptome analyses have been performed.
Should the data described here be representative for polyploid plants, enhanced meiotic recombination, and the resulting rapid creation of genetic diversity, could have also contributed to their prevalence.
As representatives for the plant kingdom, a dicot (Arabidopsis thaliana) and a monocot (Oryza sativa) plant genome were analyzed.
The RIL population represents the genetic diversity caused by mixing the Cvi and Ler genomes and hence is representative for domestication of plant species through modern breeding.
With the increasing availability of whole genome sequences for representative plant fungal pathogens [ 16], extensive and diverse genome-wide analyses can be performed, including transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics [ 17].
"The models do not describe each individual plant, but just a generic plant representative for a gridbox of perhaps 50 by 50 km.
Collect a specimen of a representative individual plant for the plant press to create a voucher for the population or the greenhouse collection.
Each student group was given plants from four of the 12 species being utilized in that particular week, with a total of 15 species used throughout this project and each group receiving at least one representative flowering plant for each pollinator: hummingbird, bee, and butterfly (see Figure 1 and Table 2 for a complete list of flowering plants).
Even though the allometric model that we employed is representative for the most abundant plant families within the selected study areas (Vochysiaceae and Fabaceaea), we found differences between the three study areas in species composition and abundance.
The dimensions "A" (width of central leaflet at its widest point) and "B" (transect between tips of the two lateral leaflets) were measured, and the ratio B/A was computed for one representative leaf per plant for 992 transformants.
