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experiment was successful. The experiment was comprised of four main parts which included, planting the F1 generation seeds, pollinating the flowers, harvesting the seeds, and germinating the seeds. This process took about a total of 13 weeks for the Brassica Rapa Plants to complete their full life cycle (Figure 4). To begin, F1 Wisconsin Brassica Rapa fast plant hybrid generation seeds made from a cross between a homozygous purple pigmented plant and a homozygous green pigmented plant are…

A Turtle and Some Beans Anais Nin, a renowned author, once wrote, “And the day came when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” (“Quotes About Growth”). In the story, The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, the courage to bloom is one of the many themes. Taylor, a young woman travelling westward, is unwillingly given a child. Taylor and the child, Turtle, eventually settle in Arizona. They live with a woman named Lou Ann, and Taylor works at an auto…

Ever wondered how the banyan tree grew to be so huge?. I recall standing below a huge banyan tree in my village. My father showed me a seed and said the tree is from this seed. As a young boy it was a mystery to me how such a big tree developed from this tiny seed. As I grew up I understood the development stages and how it also related to my development from a just born to the stage I am. There is a very popular song in my native language Tamil in India. The song says we have…

peanut plant produces yellow, orange, cream or white flowers which produce 'pegs', characteristic floral structures which sink into the ground to grow the pod. The pods could be reaching up to 10 cm (4 in) in length and can contain between 1 and 5 seeds. The peanut plant can reach 0.6 m (2 ft) in height or depending on the variety and as an annual plant, survives only one growing season (Thiessen and Woodward, 2012). Peanut may also be known as groundnut, monkeynut…

The seed that bears two vines. This fraze has been interpred into many diffrent meanings, one is the vine of life and the vine of death. "The Tunnel", "The Bridge" and "The Scarlet Ibis", each feed off this vine. Some psoitve and negive vine, each vine has a meaning that refers back twards the stories. All three stories have symbols that refers back into the two vines. "The Tunnel" has many symbols such as the mothers beach being the safe beach, then boys beach was dangerous where one could get…

How to grow Sarracenia Pitcher plant from seed. In order to grow a Sarracenia pitcher plant from seed, you need to have time, and patience. Sarracenia has to be watered with rain or purified water every day or every other day. Never allow the soil to get dry, but you also never want your plant to sit in water. Too much water can make a plant mold causing it to die, or be very difficult to take care of. Sarracenia is a carnivorous plant. Therefore it likes soil with little to no nutrients. The…

suicide due to this modified crop, the greatest number being in India (RT). According to the New York Times, in India the cost of Bt cotton seeds is anywhere from three to five times more expensive than the natural cotton seeds. However, farmers lack access to natural cotton seeds because an American company called Monsanto allegedly controls India’s seed market. Farmers in India have not been able to make as much profit on genetically modified cotton as they had expected and many of them went…

NATURAL LONGEVITY OF TREE SEEDS. The period for which seed can remain viable without germinating is greatly affected by its quality at the time of collection, its treatment between collection and storage and the conditions in which it is stored. According to Harrington (1972) one of the two main factors influencing seed longevity is seed moisture content. Seeds are hygroscopic and their moisture contents come into equilibrium with those of the atmosphere. Nevertheless, seed longevity varies…

the radish seed? The experiment consisted of testing five germinating radish seeds under four different color lights, red, blue, green, and normal fluorescent light. The seeds were placed in a Petri dish covered in a wet paper towel and a piece of colored cellophane was also placed on top. The results were quite interesting because the seeds showed no difference in number of germination throughout the different light colors. Each color of light resulted in one slightly germinated seed, or 20%…

Discussion Regarding to graph 1 for radish seeds, the data suggest that the seeds without any gibberellic acid are the ones that germinated the fastest. According to the R value, all the other trendlines with Gibberellic acid have the same trend. This shows that Gibberellic acid have an negative impact on the germination of seeds. Only 9 seeds from one sample of 1000 ppm germinated, therefore the average never reached 10. From graph 2 it can be concluded that poppy seeds are slower at…