Arabidopsis Project WWW Manual

Plant Physiology 455/555

Jonathan Monroe, Department of Biology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807

  • Go to a poster describing this project (on white pages).
  • Go to a lab manual for this project (on green pages).

    ABSTRACT

    This is a manual to accompany a one semester undergraduate Plant Physiology lab course. The project involves the isolation and analysis of mutants of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.. Working in small groups, students begin by isolating any of various mutants from mutagenized seedlings growing on soil or agar plates with or without selective conditions. Putative mutants are then transplanted to soil and allowed to set seed. Students then design and carry out experiments to learn something about their mutants. Through this Web manual students access the extensive Arabidopsis databases on the Internet to find information about, and perhaps even images of mutants similar to their own.

    This WWW manual is divided in two parts:

    1. For Instructors of undergraduate Plant Physiology courses I have included the text of a poster I presented at the Council on Undergraduate Research Conference at Bates College, Lewiston ME in 1994. The poster describes the pedagogical goals of the project, a semester schedule, and results from the first class that conducted the project. This series of pages is on a WHITE background.

    2. For students, this is a lab manual for learning about Arabidopsis. and how to grow it, looking for mutants, and getting information about them through the extensive Arabidopsis databases via the Internet. Using these databases one can find references to publications, and images of mutants similar to those isolated in the class. This series of pages is on a GREEN background.

    A WWW lab manual to accompany a Molecular Biology investigative lab project was also developed by the author with Dr. Ivor T. Knight.

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    James Madison University, Department of Biology
    Jonathan D. Monroe, PhD
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    All contents copyright (C) 1995, Jonathan D. Monroe. All rights reserved.
    Revised: December 22, 1995
    URL: http://csm.jmu.edu/biology/courses/bio455_555/atlab/ppjm1.html