Laboratory Schedule Fall 2013

A printed copy of this customized laboratory manual will be provided. It is also available on the Courses Server.

Date	Laboratory title	Page no.
9/3-4	pH, buffers, and spectrophotometry	4
9/10-11	Isolation of ascorbate biosynthesis gene	16
9/17-18	Mineral nutrition of sunflowers Plant soybean seeds for nitrogen fixation lab Scholander Pressure Chamber	25 53
9/24-25	The metal requirements of malic enzyme	32
10/1-2	SDS-PAGE and western blotting	65
10/8-9	Thin-layer chromatography of chloroplast pigments	38
10/15-16	Photosynthesis.  (IRGA) Completion of mineral nutrition of sunflowers	44
10/29-30	Completion of nitrogen fixation lab Plant pea seeds for roles of auxins and cytokinins in apical dominance Start on independent projects	53 82
11/5-6	Idenitification of cyanobacterial symbionts in a cycad Continue with apical dominance lab (11/5 and 6)	87
11/9-10	Completion of cycad symbiont lab / completion of apical dominance lab Student oral reports and individual conferences on independent projects	87 82