Cultivation of Arabidopsis thaliana in a Laboratory Environment

Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. is one of the major model organisms used in different areas of science: plant physiology and biochemistry, developmental biology, genetic engineering, genome editing, etc. These model plants possess the following advantages: short life cycle, simple cultivation, sequenced and rather well annotated genome, and numerous available reports concerning transcriptome, proteome, metabolic pathways, and mutations. The technique of A. thaliana cultivation under laboratory conditions is an important aspect of investigations dealing with this plant as a model. Choice of the growing mode depends on the goal of investigation as well as on quantity and type of required biomaterial. The aim of this work is to review the techniques of A. thaliana cultivation and their applicability to different tasks.