"Viruses can hide in seeds for years, making this one of the ... Hundreds of varieties of Arabidopsis, a small plant in the mustard family, were inoculated with cucumber mosaic virus.

Striga seeds are tiny and powdery ... Seto’s team looked at the function of these genes using a common model plant, Arabidopsis, into which each the five genes were introduced.

However, this is not the first time that seeds are germinated in space. Seeds of Arabidopsis (a small flowering plant in the mustard family) and dwarf wheat have grown for six weeks and five weeks ...