Botany: A Lab Manual

Botany: A Lab Manual, Sixth Edition is designed to provide students with a hands-on learning experience that will enhance their understanding of plant biology. It examines plant structure, plant groups, genetics, classification, and other topics pertinent to understanding plants. In addition, this manual includes added labs that move beyond the standard plant anatomy and plant group exercises and are incorporated into all botany laboratory sections. This additional content enables instructors to customize their instruction by choosing those labs that best match the emphasis in their individual course.

James Mauseth The University of Texas at Austin, Section of Integrative Biology Education: B.S., University of Washington at Seattle, 1970 Ph.D., University of Washington at Seattle, 1975 Research: Research in his lab centers on evolution of morphogenic mechanisms and structure. They use cacti as model organisms because the family contains a great amount of structural/developmental diversity and because the cactus genus Pekeskia retains numerous relictual characters. Plants of Pereskia have hard woody stems and ordinary large leaves. From ancestors like this, morphogenic mechanisms have evolved into ones capable of controlling the differentiation of various types of highly modified wood, unusual types of cortex that have leaf-like features, and apical meristems that minimize the number of mitoses necessary to produce large plants. Because each evolutionary line in the family has undergone particular types of modification of the morphogenic mechanism, they can compare different types of differentiation of a particular tissue, each type controlled by homologous morphogenic mechanisms.

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