Wisconsin Fast Plants® (scientific name: Brassica rapa) are rapid-cycling brassicas. Fast Plants® today require little more attention than continuous fluorescent light, water, and fertilizer.

Teachers and learners use Fast Plants® in classrooms from kindergarten through college and beyond. Learners of all ages can explore a wide variety of questions with Fast Plants® and learn by engaging in genuine scientific inquiry.

Learners find the excitement of growing a real, living plant is irresistible. Fast Plants® change visibly every single day, right in front of your eyes.

• In two short weeks, the tiny seeds will sprout, grow, and bloom.
• In just over a month, learners can plant seeds, tend plants, pollinate flowers, and harvest new seeds.

Dominant expression of purple pigment in stems (also in petioles and bud tips); also selected for higher than usual number of leaf hairs; a quantitative trait.