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Live session discussing the experiments on plant responses to ethylene and abiotic stress for Lab 7. Details on the report are provided.
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Much like the flights of craft beer at a brewery that allow one to take a taste of all that the brewery has to offer, we begin our flight over Earth’s biosphere to understand a little about…
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Waterlogging effects on tomato plant growth and morphology. We observe tomato plants after their roots are submerged in water for 12, 9, 6, and 3 days. The formation of adventitious roots and the…
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Set up of 4 ethylene treatments (0 ppm, 0.1 ppm, 1 ppm, and 10 ppm) to observe responses of tomato explants and sunflower seedlings. We demonstrate the effect of ethylene in leaf epinasty and the…
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Soils are the excited skin of the Earth; they are geographically positioned as the interface between the atmosphere and the lithosphere, embodying 1800 Gt of carbon. Today, we are focusing on the…
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Lecture 14. We will discuss the role of photosynthesis and respiration in the Earth system.
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Experimental design and demo of the role of GA and ABA on plant growth using hormone-deficient mutants. The photos and phenotypic data of the mutants are coded for the students to figure things out.…
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Practical explanation by Dr. Mar Rubio about how to set the Li-COR instrument to gather gas exchange data in leaves of the ABA deficient mutant (sit) and WT tomato plants with and without ABA sprays.
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Video showing how leaf color measurements were done using a colorimeter (Chroma Meter, Minolta). Leaves from a GA-deficient mutant (gib-1) and WT plants sprayed or not sprayed with GA were used for…
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Live session to show the experimental setup for the plant growth analysis and fruit load experiments. The requirements for Lab 5 Report were explained in detail. During group office hours, we talked…
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A cool time lapse video of tomato plants growing under light and shade conditions in the greenhouse for 55 days. Followed by a demo explaining how the measurements of plant growth were made for these…
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Explanation on how the fruit load experiment was set up for Lab 5. The three treatments: all fruits, one fruit per truss, and no fruits are discussed in detail by Ryan Eadry.
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Video introducing the basis of plant growth analysis and how carbon allocation may affect the overall growth of a plant. An explanation of plant growth curves (total crop) is provided. The…
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