Question: What plants do you look at?

Rupesh Paudyal answered on 13 Jun 2016:

I have studied few plants so far.

I studied common beans – how they fight against infection from fungi.

Other plants I have studied are what we call model plants, they are not used for agriculture but is a good model to find out what it is like in plants that we can use as food. You know, like when you see how an outfit looks in a model like Kate Moss, then you have a general idea of what the outfit is like.

The other model plants are Arabidopsis thaliana (a type of cress) – to study how plants recognise gravity.

Moss (those little green things that grow on rocks, tree trunks, or anywhere, everywhere) – I studied how proteins are taken into the small compartments or organelle in the plant cell called the peroxisome.