Simple grafting. Bud grafting and cactus grafting are both useful in real
life, and can be taught in less than an hour. Most students can afford a non
patent potted rose for the bud grafting, and you may supply a scion. The lab
will yield rose bushes that produce two different flowers, and the students
will have a mature bud graft to see at the base of their stock, since almost
all modern roses are propagated that way (except miniatures)
Steve
Roxanne H. Fisher wrote:
> Dear Plant-ed folks:
>> I'm teaching a "Plants and People" nonmajors class this fall during my
> first semester as an assistant prof. It consists of a two hours lecture
> once a week and a two hour lab once a week. Does anybody have suggestions
> for short lab exercises that would be good? I also want to thank everyone
> who's posted about good textbooks for such a course!
>> Roxanne Fisher
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> Postdoctoral Scientist
> Dept. of Genetics
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> University of Wisconsin
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