Seed and plant sources for experiments
In-house: Before you spend time looking online for seeds, ask Colin Purrington (room 105), Jose-Luis Machado (room 112), and Nick Kaplinsky (106). Each has refrigerator full of seeds from past experiments.
External sources: Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center stocks (Arabidopsis thaliana seeds) Lehle Seeds, Inc. (A. thaliana, tobacco, crop species) Carolina Biological (carries Rapid Cycling Brassica seeds, maize mutants, etc.) Swarthmore Hardware (carries vegetable, flower seeds in Spring) Wildflower seeds:
Crop plant seeds:
Ordering: Buy seeds with your credit card, then submit a reimbursement request to Matt Powell, Biology Department business manager. Label the seeds with your name, purchase date, and ordering information so that unused seeds can be used in future years. Greenhouse | Bio. Dept. Facilities | Biology Department | Swarthmore College |