Plant Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Xanthomonas, the causal agent of Bacterial Spot Disease in plants, releases 30 effector proteins, including XopD, into the plant host cell during infection. This research is…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This project asked, #Does the color of light (red, yellow, green, blue, violet, and white) affect plants# growth?# The author hypothesized that her seedlings would grow best…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our aim was to discover whether certain plants could predict on the onset of dawn. Some types of plants open and close their leaves to save dew in night and to maximize thei…
Plant Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals Objective was to determine whether pitcher plants (specifically Nepenthes Ventricosa,) a type of carnivorous plant, are capable of reacting to changes in their trap environm…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn whether the amount of sand in a soil affects the amount of chlorophyll in a plant growing in it. Methods/Materials I mixed together five different…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether Matthiola plants grow taller when being watered by a sprinkler system or a drip system. Also another objective was to see which system…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to measure the effects of eggshell on plant growth. My hypothesis was that the more eggshell added to the soil, the faster the plant would grow. Methods/M…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Global climate change is a widespread concern; therefore, studies that reduce the emissions of CO(2) and other greenhouse gases through plant carbon sequestration are of gre…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To observe if excess light affects the Fibonacci phyllotaxis of marigolds thorough mutations. Methods/Materials Cardboard boxes, 75watt plant bulbs, Six French Marigolds, Wa…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This science fair project is to test the effects of a soil#s pH on the growth of grass. For my project, I adjusted the soil#s pH, varying from 5.0-9.0, making it acidic, neu…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project was to see how different levels of water salinity affect the plant Armeria maritima californica over the course of two months. Methods/Materials W…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis: box #3 with 50% compost to 50% soil ratio would grow the fastest and would be the most efficient. Methods/Materials I started my project by going to Dixielin…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the germination rate is affected by hydrating corn seeds. Methods/Materials Using approximately 240 corn seeds divided even…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I set out to prove that no matter how many sprouts a potato, whether whole or cut, may grow from its many eyes, only one sprout will grow into a terminal sh…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To discover if plants can use wavelengths of light other than visible light to undergo photosynthesis. Methods/Materials Method: Fill eight biodegradable planting squares wi…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This two-year study calculated and examined the correlation of young and old redwood tree diameter growth to rainfall at elevations of 100 and 1,500 feet. A total of four st…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if the complete starter fertilizer grows the best rye grass seedlings compared to the incomplete starter fertilizers or with…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For this project, I used a geranium plant and took cuttings from three different parts; the roots, stems, and the leaves. I regenerated these different parts and tracked the…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Soil may look like a bunch of dirt, but good quality soil is actually a complex mixture of dirt, nutrients, microorganisms, insects and worms. What type of benefit do these…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I have always been upset that so many people in the world have hardly anything to eat. If food were more common, that wouldn#t be a problem. My experiment, #Solving World Hu…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to see if treating the seed coat speeds up germination of pea seeds. Methods/Materials In our experiment we were measuring the speed of germina…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine how increased amounts of carbon dioxide exposed to plants affect their stomata. I hypothesized that the plant that was exposed t…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals We studied the growth and development of an ornamental sunflower, Helianthus annus L, in a statistically controlled experiment. The factor was the topical application of a l…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether the attributes of an acorn dictates its propensity for viability. Methods/Materials Twenty-five trials were conducted us…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This study was designed to test whether the invasive plant ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus) has a competitive advantage over the native dune plant beach buckwheat (Eriogonum l…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I became interested in this project when I was growing roses with my mom last summer. The roses my mother planted grew strong and healthy, but the ones I grew were frail and…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of IAA and IBA, two plant hormones, on growth in Laccaria bicolor, a fungus that is involved in mycorrhizal relationships with plan…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Mycorrhizae is a natural fungus that increases the surface area of the roots. This makes hard-to-capture nutrients available to plants, allowing them to be bigger, and healt…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure the amount of DNA extracted from organic and nonorganic carrots (Daucus carota), raspberries (Rubus ideaeis), and spinach (Spi…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if older ranunculus tubers can still germinate as well as younger ones. Methods/Materials There were 20 tubers from each year bei…