Flower Development

  1. Laura D Curry recommends Comments: The research being done by Andrew Foster concerningblue roses and antifreezing plants is very interesting in a commerical sense,biological sense, and social sense. The possiblity of antifreezing plantsperticulaly interests me because this technology could help barren landssustain life. The possiblities of this technology are astounding.
  2. Jaclyn Bronson recommends Flower Development-I think the subject matter Monocots vs Dicots ispertinent b ecause it is a subject that is disscued in class. Also this website talked ab out the characteristics of each and the differences which aresometimes oversee n. It was very interesting.
  3. Brett Wiesley recommends This web site would be of interest to BMZ 116 students becauseit does a study showing the arrangement and number of sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels for ARIBIDOPSIS flowers. It also showed Scan Electron Micrographs of floral buds emerging from the apicalmeristem, and of a flower with each level of whorl labeled.
  4. Thompsonkimberly recommends flower development This article gives a very detailed description of flowerdevelopment including the precises scientific flower parts.>
  5. Stephanie Kane recommends It covered fourdifferent areas of monocots and dicots. It was interesting and helpful. It went intomore detail than we were able to cover in class. It was helpful to me, and Irecommend it to other classmates.
  6. Kimberly Malmad recommends I personally found this page to be really interesting becauseI had no idea that flower essences could be used to help animals! Ididn't know quite what it was when I went to that page and ended upreading it and being intrigued. It talks about flower essences being able tohelp animals that are moping around or suffering from depression aftera change of owner or location and other things. I think this wouldbe a neat page to show what flowers can be used for that most peopleprobably don't know about.
  7. Christopher C. Spina recommends This site would be of interest to people students who areinterested in the effect of temperature on plant developement. Also to studentswho are interested in the effects that global warming would have onplant growth
  8. Megan Senske recommends This web site discussed the differences between monocots anddicots. I found it to be very interesting because it not only explained the twoseparate classifications but it explored the reasons behind the uncleardivision between the two.
  9. chris elliott recommends This specific web site tells about the parts of a plant that areinvolved in reproduction. This would serve as good backround material for yourlecture on plant body parts.
  10. Gina Gahn recommends I found the article pertaining to flower development interestingbecause it is directly related to the subject of genetics, which BMZ 115 persuedin detail. Though I plan to become a doctor and not a botanist, it is amazingto see that all of life is interconnected, whether the life form be a tulip oran elephant. According to the article, there are three classes of genes relatedto the development of flowers: class A genes are neccessary for theproper development of petals and sepals found in the first and secondwhorls of the flower. Class B genes are responsible for stamen and petaldevelopment in the second and third whorls of the flower; class C genes areresponsible for the proper development of stamens and carpels normally found in thethird and fourth whorls of the flower. In just this brief description of thegenes involved in flower development, it is easy to see exactly howcomplex the process of life truly is
  11. Thom Schultz recommends This ULR was quite interesting because it was a topic in which wecovered in class. This URL pertains to plant hormones and there effects whichis somehting we are concerning ourselves with. I believe that this will give amore indepth view on the plant hormone of Gibberellin.
  12. Jennifer Pyzoha recommends I found this URL interesting because it discusses some of theresearch tak ing place right now involving plant development. It discusses howthey found a gene that will transform tissues that normally develop into shootsinto flowers s when present. This may lead to huge strides in geneticengineering involving food crops because the growth of these plants may be able to growin various e nvironmental conditions that they can not normally survive in.
  13. Kimberly Malmad recommends I personally found this page to be really interesting becauseI had no idea that flower essences could be used to help animals! Ididn't know quite what it was when I went to that page and ended upreading it and being intrigued. It talks about flower essences being able tohelp animals that are moping around or suffering from depression aftera change of owner or location and other things. I think this wouldbe a neat page to show what flowers can be used for that most peopleprobably don't know about.
  14. Jenna Voss recommends This web site gives a brief description of the Bach flowerremedies, which is an herbal remedy that alleviates physical problemsassociated with emotional stress. Using flower petals to make extracts, a pillspecifically designed for certain stress problems. These pills are especiallyhelpful for people with consistent emotional or physical stress. This web sitgives a real-life practical use for ideas learned in Botany.
  15. Matt Braun. recommends This is a simple and colorful site made by Andrew Foster. He explains how he predicts that in the 21st century (this is thehomepage of 21st Century Magazine) an anti-frost gene kit will be developed allowing his garden plants to avoid what he calls "extra-stress"(such as drought or freezing). His most interesting vision is about blueroses -- he predicts that through extensive genetic engineering roses willbe available in this color in the 21st century. He sites an example in Aspen, Colorado where beautiful flowers were acquired from a single Arabidopsis gene.This would be an interesting site for 116 students because itshows the vision of the future in flower development for one activegardener. It certainly made me curious about what can be done when I heard of anti-frost kits and blue roses. At the bottom of this Foster'spage, there is an e-mail address to send comments to and I think it wouldbe interesting to ask him why he has this great optimism about thefuture in flower development.
  16. Katarina Sprung recommends After reading this article on the differences of dicots vs.monocots I had a full and better understanding of the two. The article alsopresented many interesting questions.
  17. Meredith Farmer recommends This site is the home page of the yanofsky laboratory, which is amolecular genetics lab working on understanding the molecular basis of flower development. Interested students can access abstracts from thelab's recent publications, including one on the molecular evolution of floraldevelopment. Also, there is an introduction to the genetics of Arabidopsisthaliana, their subject of study, and summaries of hybridization data. Aninterested student can find a lot of information about the genetics of floraldevelopment and how it is being researched at this site.
  18. Shanda Eickelberger recommends The arabidopsis is a plant commonly used in studying flowerdevelopment. This provides a data base of information on the reasearch preformed. Also check outrecommends this iswhere I found my URL and it looks like what you are tring to set up. Youshould also check out recommends it is the home page of abeautiful park about 10 miles from where I grew up.
  19. Jody speese recommends I think that this would be interesting to students because we arelearning about plant hormones in class and this would give an example of howthey are used and how they affect plant growth and development.
  20. Chris Carman recommends The site deals with the study of flower development in Arabidopsis,and is interesting because it shows several pictures of the flower in different stages of development, and diagrams important parts. Also, it talks about the concept of finding out which gene causes an organ primordia to choose a specific "fate" using genetic analysis.
  21. Jamila Washington recommends I think this site would be of interest to students in thiscourse because the characters that distinguish the classes of monocots anddicots are explored. Topics such as cotyledon number, pollen structure,number of flower parts, leaf veins, and root development are discussed. It was also helpful that common questions about monocots and dicots wereanswered. recommends ,I found the web site Stephane Jacquemoud that is from the University ofCalifornia, Davis. The Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources studiedleaf optical properties. There are also pictures of the internalsturcture of a dicotyledon, the surface of a plant leaf, a typicalchloroplast of the palisade parenchyma, and a typical chloroplast of the spongymesophyll. There is an interesting paper about leaf biochemistry from space recommends
  22. RajasekharKavitha recommends This is the original home page, but the page in thetutorial that explained the information most efficiently is recommends This article was a compilation of information from the Universityof Georgia about the development of land plants. This included a cladogram ofangisperms and gymnosperms and several pictures to explain the differencesbetween the two types. These pictures were easy to understand and helped explainthe subgroup s of monocots versus dicots in the article with the aids of graphicpictures. I think this article helped me to understand the big picture of howthe plants are related and how the pictures most clearly explain the material
  23. Aaron Bernard recommends This is the home page of a laboratory at the University ofCalifornia, San Di ego, run by Yanofsky. They are involved in research to understandthe molecula r basis for flower development. It has information about previousresearch and current ones. It is intresting to people in the class because itis about rese arch being done at another university and also because genetics isa hot topic today and so the class can see the genetics invloved in plants.
  24. Robert O'Malley recommends This site contains information from a California Lab on thegenetics of flower development, and the abstracts on their papers on thesubject, as well as some other useful info.
  25. Chad Metzger recommends This is intersting to me because I had no clue that it evenexisted. It is interesting to find out what new things are being found now and allthe different variations of them. I will enjoy looking further intothis type of flower using the references given.
  26. Michael Becker recommends This site is an interesting way to help students furtherdistinguish between monocots and dicots. It is insightful and provides extra insight. It is a long address and if it does not work, email me back andI will get the correct address, however, I am almost positive that is correct.
  27. Scott Konicki I found an interesting article on the differences between monocotsvs. dicots. Since we're studying both monocots and dicots in laboratory aswell as lecture I thought it would be a good subject to study. I found that JohnRay was the first to classify the two as different organisms in the year 1682.