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Of the species examined to date three have only a single subunit A gene detected, the alga Coleochaete scutata, sugar beet ( Beta vulgarise [ 63 64 ] , and A. thaliana [ 25 ] . Flowering plants shown to have at least two subunit A genes include oat ( Avena sativa ), carrot ( Daucus carota ), tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ), tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum ), cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum ), magnolia ( Magnolia virginana ), Hydrastis canadensis, Chenopodium rubrum, and clematis ( Clematis liguisticfolio ). In addition, the unicellular alga Acetabularia acetabulum has two V-ATPase subunit A genes.
Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats , about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for `foolish': it was also Latin for `wild,' which might be more to the point.