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In 1992, Florida State University adopted the Brassica rapa plant from research scientists at the University of Wisconsin (Sherdan et al., 2007). Brassica rapa is in the same family as cabbage, broccoli, turnip, mustard, and cauliflower; it also makes up about one-third of all vegetable oil worldwide (Sherdan et al., 2007). It is a good model species due to its ability to grow, germinate, and flower rapidly (Sherdan et al., 2007). In this experiment, two strains of Brassica rapa seeds were used, a typical wild type and Rosette mutant, however, we chose to focus on the Rosette mutant seeds. Plant growth regulators also known as, hormones, regulate processes such as: seed germination, cell division and plant growth, responses to stresses, fruit

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