Brassica rapa

The Wisconsin Fast Plant, otherwise known as the Brassica Rapa, is a petite plant and researching tool bred by Dr. Paul Williams and used to improve disease resistance of the cruciferous plants. Dr. Williams was able to breed the Fast Plant with other related species of the Cruciferae family, in order to achieve shorter life cycles. Fast Plant life cycles have been reduced from the average six-month cycle to a five-week cycle (History of Wisconsin Fast Plants). These plants have been known to show

The experiment commenced with planting over one hundred and thirty Brassica rapa plants. A large abundance was planted to ensure the large diversity of plants, which would also ensure a number of plants would be available to artificially select. Each Brassica rapa was planted with about one hundred and thirty plants to ensure the genetic diversity but this process first commenced by accumulating small plastic pots; it was important that these pots have holes in them so that they could be filled

The Effects of Fertilizer on Plant Height and Number of Leaves in Fast Plants, Brassica rapa Introduction The Brassica rapa has many common names such as field mustard, bird rape, colza, and keblock and is closely related to turnips, rapeseed, and cabbage. Wisconsin University researchers bred one species of the Brassica rapa to have an extremely short life cycle (seed-to-seed thirty-five to forty days) for a model organism in education and experiments. In addition to their short life cycle, they

The control group in this experiment is the group that is grown normally to test the effects of the rest of the experiment’s independent variables. Growing Brassica rapa plants in the control group will allow the other science experiments to be compared to the normal growth of a common Brassica rapa plant. The normal growth of these plants will be important in measuring the other plants to see how their sizes compare and to show how an untreated plant would grow. Because of the nature of the control

Minimal Amounts of Crude Oil in Soil Beneficial to Growth of Brassica rapa Plant Savanna Roberts and Will Vogel Biology Department Birmingham-Southern College Abstract This study focused on the affects of crude oil in the soil of a growing Brassica rapa plant. Different variations of concentration of crude oil in the soil were used, as well as soil without crude oil, and a soil with an unknown concentration of crude oil. The study took place in a greenhouse in the science department

mixture plus wood fertilizer, for each of the twenty groups. For intraspecific a control was set with one Brassica rapa seed directly in the center of the pot. Then 2 Brassica rapa seeds were placed together equal distances apart into two pots. In another two pots, four Brassica rapa seeds were placed together equally apart. The last two pots had 8 Brassica rapa seeds equally apart. The Brassica rapa seeds used in this experiment are Wisconsin Fast Plant™. For the interspecific groups,the plastic pots

INVESTIGATION OF THE INHERITANCE OF THE ROSETTE GENE IN BRASSICA RAPA By: Justine Poorbaugh Foundations of Biology 2 Laboratory Thursday 2:30 PM Professor Cheek April 21, 2011 ABSTRACT The Brassica rapa is a rapid growing plant that has a standard form and a mutant rosette form. Relative to normal plants, the rosette form is shorter and takes longer to flower. The mode of inheritance of the rosette gene was tested by crossing two true-breeding plants, one of each form. The F1 generation

e Inheritance of Anthocyanin using Mendelian Laws in Brassica rapa Sarah Railsback   ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Gregor Mendel had a huge impact on the discovery of genetics. It is believed that his interest to explore genetics was greatly influenced by Joseph Koelreuter. Koelrueter observed that not all hybrids can reproduce, and that when mated some of the hybrids look like the parents, and some looked like a different species. This intrigued Mendel. Mendel then began to study the inheritance patterns

Brassica Rapa is a widely-studied plant in the field of Biology. Brassica Rapa is also known as the vegetable crops that many people often cook in their kitchen or harvest in their gardens: cabbages and turnips. This herbaceous species derived from the genus of Brassica and the family Brassicaceae (1). Worldwide, this species is recognized as one of the most fast-growing plants that many biologists are found to experiment on when testing the effects of various variables. When teens are in the process

also maximizing each yield as much as possible. However, plant growth can be influenced by seed variety, the amount of water, the soil type, amount of light, etc., and many other variables. For this experiment, we are testing the growth of the Brassica rapa, a mustard plant under the same conditions of water, sunlight, and oxygen, with two different treatment solutions. There will be two pots, one has a treatment of just deionized water and the other a treatment of fertilizer as well as deionized