more. Meioses that lead to self-pollination are unlikely to produce significant beneficial genetic variability. However, these meioses can provide the adaptive benefit of recombinational repair of DNA damages during formation of germ cells at each generation. Such a benefit may have been sufficient to allow the long-term persistence of meioses even when followed by self-fertilization. A physical mechanism for self-pollination in A. thaliana is through pre-anthesis autogamy, such that fertilisation takes place largely before flower opening. Databases and other resources TAIR and NASC: curated sources for diverse genetic and molecular biology information, links to gene expression databases etc. Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (seed and DNA stocks) Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (seed and DNA stocks) Artade database See also A. thaliana responses to salinity BZIP intron plant The Thaliana Bridge, installed in 2021 at Harlow Carr was inspired by the work of the botanical scientist Rachel Leech and represents the sequence of an Arabidopsis thaliana chromosome. References External links Arabidopsis transcriptional regulatory map The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) Salk Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory What Makes Plants Grow? The Arabidopsis genome knows Featured article in Genome News Network The Arabidopsis book - A comprehensive review published yearly related to research in Arabidopsis'' A. thaliana protein abundance The Arabidopsis Information Portal (Araport) Flora of Europe Flora of Asia Flora of Africa Flora of Lebanon Plant models Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Space-flown life Edible plants Plant cognition thaliana