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We were surprised to find that the majority of people come to the Fast Plant website through a Google or Yahoo search for plant life cycle. We also realized that we could improve our life cycle webpage by using a mouse rollover to show details about each step in the Fast Plant life cycle… Continue

Posted by Wisconsin Fast Plants Program on September 22, 2009 at 3:59pm

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Bob McMaster is now a member of Wisconsin Fast Plants Network

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November 14

Dick Willis replied to Dick Willis's discussion 'Cross pollination techniques'

Thanks, Dan. I will follow your directions and let you know how it works for me. I want to have enough seeds to do the F1 then F2 generations and use the F2 generation seeds in the petri dish module for genetics.

November 13

Dan Lauffer replied to Dick Willis's discussion 'Cross pollination techniques'

Hello Dick, This is a very good question. The purple anthocyanin pigment in the Purple stem hairy will act dominant over the green stem in the Non-purple hairless (anthocyaninless). By crossing the purple stem with the non-purple stem and harvest...

November 13

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Cross pollination techniques

I am growing Non-purple stem hairless and Purple stem hairy plants now and am looking to cross pollinate. How do I make certain that the seeds I collect represent cross pollinated plants and not self pollinated plants?

November 12