What is the best science experiment plant?

Best plant for science experiment?

• I need to know whats the best plant to grow in a science experiment. My experiment is to find out if plants grow better or worse when sugar is added to their system. It needs to be comparable so yea, Thanks in advance :D

• Answer:

  The two best plants for most experiments are Arabidopsis and its close relatives, Brassica sp. (Wisconsin fast plants). Arabidopsis is THE model for doing plant genetics and it is possible to obtain Arabidopsis with just about every variation and 'knockout-mutation' for every gene in the plant. It is small, grows quickly and does not outcross unless you distribute the pollen yourself. Wisconsin fast plants are related to Arabidopsis, but are even faster cycling and have a huge number of experiments designed around them for all levels of educational activities. I have pasted in a number of useful links for you below and hope this is helpful. Source(s): http://www.huntington.org/Education/gib.%E2%80%A6 http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/%E2%80%A6 http://rvgs.k12.va.us/differentiation_fi%E2%80%A6 http://www.nsf.gov/bio/pubs/reports/arab%E2%80%A6 http://www.biology.missouri.edu/docs/Par%E2%80%A6 http://www.arabidopsis.org/ http://www.fastplants.org/