Links

It may not be a BIG deal with you, but there is much that can be gained by better understanding exactly how seeds germinate.  Michael Holdsworth (University of Bristol) not only has a great web site, but plenty of reasons why it's important to study plant embryo development.

Apical Dominance. Check out R. Koning's lecture on this mechanism.

Plants In Motion...  from Indiana... they have movies of plants responding to stimuli! After you finish reading the first page, click on the link at the bottom of the page to find your options.  I prefer the movies on the Circadian Clocks.  (Warning!  It may take awhile for some pages/movies to load)

The Gravitropism Database. NASA has been studying gravity for a long time. Now they're interested in gravitropism in plants. Follow the link to find out why.

Regulation in Plants

What was Charles Darwin studying in 1875?

Define tropism.

Define thigmotropism.

Fritz Went discovered one of the first plant hormones involved in phototropism and named it _____.

Plant Hormones

What is apical dominance?

What does auxin do?

What does cytokinin do?

What is senescence?

What does ethylene do?

Signal Transduction Pathways in Plants

Kick back and listen. There are no assigned questions.