Rapid-Cycling Brassicas (RCBs) in Hands-on Teaching of Plant Biology

 

Paul Williams

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1989, Volume 10

Abstract

Wisconsin Fast Plants is a novel technology involving the use of rapid cycling genetic stocks (35 days seed to seed) of Brassica rapa and related species and includes simple, inexpensive, self-contained growing systems suitable for the classroom or laboratory at all levels from kindergarten to college. Participants are introduced to the uses of these plants in teaching: development, reproduction, genetics, physiology, and ecology.

Keywords:  Botany & Plant Science, life cycle, Brassica rapa, Fast Plants

University of British Columbia (1988)