Friday, March 30, 2012

Germination Trials

We've been investigating how tomato flesh can inhibit the germination of Mustard seeds.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Lupin Trial 2012

Lupin Trial 2012:
In preparation for our Unit Standard on germination we have been looking at the effect of salinity upon the germination of Blue Lupin seeds.
In our trial they germinated best in a 6.25% solution of sea water to fresh water very few lupin seeds were able to germinate in the 100% sea water trial.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Phototropism and Gravitropism animations

Explore how a plant hormone called auxin stimulates cell elongation in plant shoots in these step by step animations of experiments.
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp38/3802001.html

Sunday, March 4, 2012