Research Link will create a new kind of learning community for both students and faculty in the biological sciences. It will facilitate collaboration and encourage students to think and communicate science with their peers across the nation.” (Jim Hoerter, Ferris State University) The C-Fern Project is honored to be one of the participants involved in […]

28 July – 2 August 2006 Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting California State University-Chico CA 30 July 2006 Using the Original and Newly Improved Versions of C-Fern® in Inquiry-based Teaching C-FERN®, a derived strain of the tropical fern Ceratopteris, is a simple and rapidly developing organism that is adaptable to teaching a wide range […]

Dr. Stan Roux and colleagues study how the environmental stimuli of light and gravity alter patterns of growth and development in plants. Germinating spores of Ceratopteris richardii (C-Fern) are used as a single-cell model system to examine the effect of gravity on the orientation of nuclear migration and subsequent rhizoid development and growth. C-Fern was carried on the STS-93 […]

Ethyl Methane Sulfonate Formulation Error On page C3, line 33  in the C-Fern Manual (Additional Culture Instruction, Spore Mutagenesis): The line  “39 mL 200 mM Na2HPO4 – H2O (FW 137.99; 2.67 g / 100 ml)” should read  “39 mL 200 mM NaH2PO4 – H2O (FW 137.99; 2.76 g / 100 ml)”