An Undergraduate Study of Two Transcription Factors That Promote Lateral Root Formation

Brenner, Bargmann and Birnbaum designed and constructed an “education kit” that they have donated to the (ABRC) Arabidopsis Stock Center for disseminating to teaching institutes worldwide a collection of transgenic reporter Arabidopsis plants that allows students to explore the molecular genetics of root development.  Here undergraduate biology students grow Arabidopsis seedlings and score for gene expression using a marker gene GUS that is turned on the cells where lateral roots are formed.