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There is an established nomenclature for genes, proteins and alleles for Arabidopsis thaliana. For example, alleles are lowercase and distinguished by a dash and number (abc2-1, abc2-2). Check to see if your allele already has a name. 

Naming and re-naming T-DNA insertion lines

There is a difference between a stock/germplasm and the specific T-DNA insertion that is causal for a phenotype. Therefore when referencing an allele please include the specific polymorphism and not just the name of the ABRC stock because many ABRC T-DNA stocks contain multiple insertions. Before naming your allele, check to see if it already has a name in TAIR or in the literature. At TAIR, we will update the allele name with the newly published name. If you have an allele/polymorphism/phenotype that does not already exist in TAIR, please send us the information.

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