Fast Plants® were developed by Professor Emeritus Paul H. Williams, in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After about 20 years of planting, growing, and selecting, his breeding process had reduced a 6-month life cycle to 5 weeks that has been used by K-16 teachers around the world for nearly 30 years as an educational model-organism.
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