Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Bacterial spot disease is caused by four Xanthomonas species and results in, annually, up to 50% loss of marketable tomatoes. Genomic studies revealed that the four species…
Plant Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to see if coco coir, an eco-friendly, sustainable growing medium, can be used as a substitute for non-sustainable growing mediums. If coco…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The experiment was conducted to determine the difference in the iron intake of spinach in the presence of marble (alkaline soil) versus regular soil. If the marble increases…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Test if pre-emergents effect the growth the raddish plants. Methods/Materials Planted 3 raddish seeds (72 individual containers) remove unhealthy plants, only one healthy pl…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experimentation was to determine whether or not talking to plants in different tones of voices would affect how tall they could grow in a seven-day per…
Plant Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine if Zea mays, corn, inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi would be able to communicate with their neighbors and warn them about pest…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I had done this project to find out why the same plants grow better in certain soils than others. So, my goal was to learn which pH was best for certain plants and even if i…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to test the effect of ABA (Abscisic acid) on the inhibition of IAA(Indole-3-Acetic-Acid)in thigmotropic reactions alongside ABA's ability to…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My brother broke vertebrae and required a surgery binding the vertebrae. My family and I were told about a about near infrared (NIR) light healing therapy. Harvard Medical S…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Eucalyptol is allopathic, meaning it eliminates and kills bacteria. Therefore, I hypothesized that if eucalyptol is allopathic, then its inhibition in an area of germinating…
Plant Biology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Downy mildew is one of the most destructive plant pathogens across the globe, and the major production constraint on the $200,000,000 spinach industry in California, the maj…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how different types of water (tap vs. distilled) and fertilizer (organic vs. inorganic) affected plant growth. Methods/Materials Experiment was…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see which was more beneficial to plants-commercial or homemade fertilizer Methods/Materials Materials: 15 butter lettuce plants Unfertilized soil 15 pots Miracle…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Many scientists believe that certain plants have a Fibonacci number of spirals in a golden ratio phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves on a stem) because the limit of two c…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine how green, blue, and red wavelengths of light would affect lettuce seed's percentage of germination and to observe the effects of different wavelengths of light…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to determine whether the acidity level in water would greatly affect the chlorophyll b levels in Egeria Densa. Methods/Materials Three plas…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if aquatic duckweed is effective in testing agricultural soils fertility levels. Methods/Materials Soil samples from five different agricultural…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether plants grow best under low or high pressure, or at no pressure at all. Methods/Materials The method for this experimen…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to determine the allelopathic effect of juglone on the growth of vegetable plants. Allelopathy is the beneficial or harmful effect of one plant on another pl…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know which laundry soap solutions would be safe for our garden plants and our local environment (garden drains to a local creek). Would laundry solutions be safe…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The benefits of plant nutrients are studied extensively for cancer prevention, blood sugar, and cardiovascular diseases. Greens provide an abundance of vitamins for human he…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Mold found on the scarlet wisteria (Sesbania Punicea) at Scout Island was seen to be weakening and killing off the wisteria without any visible effect to any adjacent or sur…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to test how the different amounts of Rhizobium bacteria will affect the growth of a pea plant starting from seed. Methods/Materials There…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether corn (Zea mays), kale (Brassica oleracea L.) and broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italic) could be used as hyperacc…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals We observde the effects of different color lighting, specifically blue light, on the protein levels in vegetables. After extracting proteins from the dried, ground leaf samp…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove that different types of plants have different evapotranspiration rates, which affect the amount of water they use. I predict that cactuses would ev…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Purpose was to find chemicals from the PMRA/PMRP libraries that would cause resistance in the Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings in a salt stressed media. The PMRA 1 library wou…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Many Oak trees in Santa Cruz Country are infected by Phytophthora ramorum, a type of Stramenopile that is similar to a fungus. Our objective is to determine if any abiotic f…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to determine if chia seeds have a measureable advantage over similar seeds in terms of water absorption. The chia seed is believed to absorb ove…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To test which flavonoid is most effective at inhibiting the Tobacco Mosaic Virus: Quercetin, Fisetin, or Rutin. Methods/Materials Materials: #Nicotiana Glutinosa tobacco pla…