Introduction Welcome to your preparation guide for this week’s practical lab session! Before we get hands-on with the equipment, it is crucial to understand the physiological principles that allow us to measure plant health, light environments, and photosynthetic rates. In the upcoming practical, we will demonstrate three essential scientific instruments: The Konica Minolta SPAD-502 Chlorophyll Meter The LI-180 Spectrometer The LI-6800 Portable Photosynthesis System Rea

Your task is to present and analyse the findings from our recent spectrometer experiment in the physiology lab. You will evaluate and compare the light readings taken from the top tier and the bottom tier, interpreting what these differences mean for plant physiological processes. Create a video about 10-15 min, with you or your group talking about the spectrometer values below. Use creative thinking to fashion your video, it could be a podcast interview style, a forum, a sho

Submit by group, not individually, so play nice, you all. A. [10%] Create a video about 10 to 15 min, with your group talking-teaching the public about the PGR topics assigned to you as follows: 1. Strigolactone POWER RANGERS 2. Brassinosteroid VERONICA 3. Jasmonate (IMUT PEOPLE) 4. Salicylates SUNFLOWER 5. Trehalose (TGP) UBI KAYU 6. Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) MATCHA LATTE Upload it to Google Drive, then provide me with a link to your uploaded video. Your video must

Introduction Gibberellic Acid-3 (GA-3) is a naturally occurring plant growth regulator that causes a variety of physiological effects, including the stimulation of seed germination and stem elongation. GA-3 occurs naturally in the seeds of many species and is produced commercially by growing Gibberella fujikuroi fungus cultures, followed by extraction and purification. Presoaking seeds in a GA-3 solution can trigger rapid germination in many types of highly dormant seeds. In

Whether it is a seedling pushing through the soil or a fruit ripening on a branch, every movement a plant makes is orchestrated by complex chemical messengers known as Plant Growth Regulators (PGRs) or Phytohormones. Derived from the Greek word hormaein, meaning "to excite," these natural molecules work in minute concentrations to produce substantial physiological changes. What Defines a Phytohormone? Unlike animals, plants do not have specialised glands for hormone product

Hi All, this is a reminder to submit your Test-1 on the 5th of May 2026 Remember to submit these 2 things: 1. The corrected version of the auto-generated transcripts (submit .srt file, keep the timestamps). Each person is responsible for 1 part of the 4 parts available (Photosynthesis The Light Reactions Part 1-4 of 4) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions Part 1 of 4 reactions that occur within chloroplasts and the carbon fixation reactions that produce sugars. oxygen

https://youtu.be/PqQIvCWd6Dg Summary Technical training session established standardised ImageJ measurement protocols for quantifying auxin experiment root growth and length. ImageJ Setup and Scaling: Participants installed the ImageJ software and configured image scaling by setting rulers to establish consistent pixel-to-millimetre units. Counting and Measuring Roots: Researchers utilised multi-point tools for root counting and freehand tracing for curvature measurement. Ea

Submit by group, not individually, so play nice, you all. A. [10%] Answer Questions 1 to 40, find the answers in the picture and puzzle below, the words are in anagram form, find the anagram form and write the real words, then also find the answers in the crossword puzzles, highlight the answer using the pencil colour provided (Sample answers have been provided). B. [5%] Create a video about 10 min, with your group talking about anything that you have learned so far i

1. Introduction Growth analysis is a mathematical expression of environmental effects on the growth and development of crop plants. Classical growth analysis typically requires the destructive harvesting of representative sets of plants over several weeks, making it impossible to follow the same plant throughout an entire experiment. This practical introduces a non-destructive, single-harvest alternative by utilizing a space-for-time substitution. By examining a single frond

Introduction & Theory Plant propagation through stem cuttings is a fast and cost-effective technique that maintains the genetic traits of the parent plant. The success of this method depends heavily on the rapid formation of adventitious roots. This process is regulated by plant hormones called auxins, which stimulate cell division in the stem's vascular tissues. Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) is a widely used synthetic auxin because of its stability and effectiveness across man