Teaching Concepts of Plant Development With Lettuce Seeds and Seedlings

 

David T. Webb

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1985, Volume 6

Abstract

This exercise uses lettuce seeds and seedlings to illustrate several plant developmental processes and encourages simple student-designed research projects.

Keywords:  tissue culture, colchicine, illumination, plant hormones, 2-thiouracil, phototropism, elongation, hypocotyl, irradiation, germination

Memorial University of Newfoundland (1984)