The Wisconsin Fast Plants Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Wisconsin Fast Plants Program is a science education / outreach program for teachers that develops instructional materials, offers workshops, promotes networking, and collaborates with other educational initiatives. The program's focus is on Fast Plants (rapid cycling Brassica rapa), a fast growing, widely used plant that is ideal for use both in the classroom and in the research lab.

Current Initiatives:

Wisconsin Fast Plants and Bottle Biology Newsletter, Notes

New Activity: The Big Idea

FastPlants, the Environment, Heredity, and You:

PART I: Is more food better?
A new activity and research project addressing the effects of nutrition on growth, development, and reproduction.

PART II: Creating the Wooly Booger
(Coming soon)
A new activity and research experiment investigating the inheritance of hairs on Fast Plants.

• From mendel to quantitative genetics, Fast Plants are an accessible tool for exploring models of inheritance.

Research Link 2000 Fast Plants Phenotype Linkage Map Project