Plant Cloning Kit
Grades 9-12.
Plant propagation by cloning is becoming increasingly important in food and flower production. Generating a plant by cloning its tissue is an exciting and challenging experience that teaches the importance of sterile laboratory methods. Using this kit, users will establish a shoot multiplication culture using an African violet as a model, use sterile technique to develop African violet cloned cultures, and induce the development of multiple shoots (clones) from the leaf tissue. Resulting plantlets may be started in soil. The complete process takes approximately three months. No hood or incubator required. Kit includes an instruction manual, assessment questions, and a PowerPoint® presentation with images of plant material at various stages of the experiment.
WARNING: Choking Hazard. Small Parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.