Educational kit for fast cycling plants
AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorPaul H. Williams
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Abstract
An educational kit for the classroom study of plants including a compact plant growth environment and a seed of fast-cycling Brassica plants. The fast-cycling plants grow in compact areas and have generation cycle times of sixty days or less making them convenient for classroom study. Various experiments on plant growth, physiology and genetics can be performed with the kits.
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An educational kit for the classroom study of fast-cycling Brassica plants comprising
- a compact plant growth environment for plants suitable for classroom use, including physical containers for plants, and a watering system to continually water plants in the containers with minimum maintenance;
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- a stock of seeds of fast=cycling Brassica plants having an average growing cycle of not more than about sixty days and of a size appropriate for the compact growth environment, the seeds selected to yield plants having easily observable traits of educational interest.
An educational kit for the classroom study of plant genetics in fast-cycling Brassica plants comprising
- a compact plant growth environment including a physical plant containment, and a watering system;
- pollination tools for hand-pollination of plants;
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- at least two stocks of seeds of fast-cycling Brassica plants characterized by a characteristic average growing cycle under optimal conditions of not more than about sixty days, each of the two stocks having one of an allelic pair of chromosomes conditioning an easily observable phenotypic trait so that crosses of the two stocks and their progeny can be readily made and the phenotypes of the progeny observed.
A method of studying plant growth and plant genetics utilizing fast-cycling Brassica seeds, comprising:
- sowing the seeds of fast-cycling Brassica plants in a compact plant growth environment for Brassica plants suitable for classroom use, including physical containers for the plants and a watering system for continually watering the plants in the containers with minimum maintenance;
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- providing sufficient light to allowing rapid growth of the plants;
- wherein the seeds of the fast-cycling Brassica plants have been bred to develop into plants having a characteristic average growing cycle of not more than sixty days and having a size appropriate for the compact plant growth environment, the seeds being selected to yield plants having easily observable traits of educational interest.
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