Spreading rock cress, a biennial member of the mustard family, is easy to overlook.
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Spreading rock cress grows in two other spots nearby, including someone's private property.
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Rock cress not only has downy leaves, but is covered with fragrant white flowers in early summer.
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The team worked with Arabidopsis, a plant also known as rock cress, which is related to cabbage and mustard.
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They discovered that the genome of the lyre-leaved rock cress is fifty percent bigger than that of the thale cress.
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But the mutation which separates how snapdragons and rock cress use this extra gene happened around 20 million years later.
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They examined a species of rock cress, Arabidopsis suecica, a polyploid with 26 chromosomes that is both found in nature and can also be resynthesized in the laboratory.