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Arabidopsis

 Arabidopsis thaliana is a small, flowering plant widely used in plant biology as a model organism. Arabidopsis is a member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) which includes cultivated species like cabbage and radish. Arabidopsis is not of significant agronomic importance but provides essential advantages for basic genetic and molecular biology study. Arabidopsis is a model organism for the study of the cellular and molecular biology of flowering plants. Arabidopsis is a long-term facultative plant. The term 'optional' means that while Arabidopsis flowers faster under long-term conditions, it will eventually flower even under short-day conditions. Arabidopsis has several families of new proteins but also lacks many common protein families, suggesting the differential expansion and contraction of common protein sets. The genome sequence of a plant provides the basis for a more comprehensive comparison of preserved processes in all eukaryotes, identifying a wide range of plant-specific gene functions and identifying rapid, systematic ways of identifying crop-enhancing genes.

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