By William G Hopkins
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Through shoot-tip culture, literally millions of genetically identical microshoots can be cloned from a single desirable parent. When a sufficient number of microshoots have been generated, they are transferred to a medium with an appropriate hormone balance that stimulates root formation. The young plantlets can then be planted in the greenhouse and grown to maturity. There are a number of advantages to micropropagation over traditional methods of plant propagation. One is that exceptionally large numbers of seedlings can be produced in a very small amount of space.
Phytoremediation: Cleaning Up With Plants Have you ever heard of locoweed? As a child, I watched a lot of Bgrade movie Westerns and one thing I learned was that, if you are a rancher, you don’t want your cattle grazing on locoweed! Locoweed is the common name given to several species of Astragalus, a genus in the Fabaceae or pea family. Also known as milk vetch or poison vetch, many species of Astragalus take up unusually large quantities of selenium from the alkaline soils of the western plains.
The sugar in DNA is missing one oxygen atom and is thus called deoxyribose. The four bases that make up DNA are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, while in RNA uracil takes the place of thymine. Biologists had long known that heredity was controlled by genes and that genes were in some way related to DNA. Scientists knew that it was important to understand the structure of DNA because knowing the structure would lead to further understanding of how the hereditary material worked in the cell.