38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Genetically engineered (GE) crops have the potential to change the future of agriculture. Transgenic crops may be the solution to environmental problems, such as the run-off…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Is the fruit ripening process in bananas, pears, and avocados accelerated the fastest by temperature, amount of sunlight, ethylene gas exsposure, being in an open air enviro…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The project purpose was to determine whether the number of stomata on a leaf's surface affects volume of water transpired in 24 hours. After testing environmental effects on…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to determine how usable forms of nitrogen and symbiosis inhibit or encourage plant growth. We believed that plants with usable nitrogen woul…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine whether or not applying a low concentration of salicylic acid (SA) to green bean plants will reduce any damaging effects caused by exposure to salt water stress…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine whether acid rain deters the antibacterial component of garlic Methods/Materials Acid rain was applied on one group of garlic plants and another group of garlic…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To analyze the response of Cd Tolerant Arabidopsis mutants in terms of their root growth, shoot growth and Cd accumulation. Methods/Materials Root Assay: I grew Mutants and…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if the time a cover crop is allowed to grow will affect its ability in enhancing the growth of a target plant grown in the same soil afterwards…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to evaluate the relationship between the phytonutrient I3C, found in Cruciferous vegetables, and estrogen in the soil, and to show if estrogen in the soil…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To learn if gibberellic acid has any effect on the salt tolerance of Pisum sativum macrocarpon. Methods/Materials 125 P. sativum seedlings were cultivated for 11 weeks in so…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I conducted this experiment to find out the effect of Hydrogen Peroxide (H(2)O(2)) on the rooting of plant cuttings and seed germination. Methods/Materials I used two sets o…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine why the ice plant grows over the salt grass but stops at the pickleweed near the edge of the channels in the Ballona Wetlands. Th…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find how the temperature of the water that is given to radishes affects their growth. Methods/Materials Three identicle plastic pots and filled with MIri…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to observe how much negative tropism, due to wind (Thigmotropism) is too great for the positive tropism, phototropism. Methods/Materials Four…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I believe that both plants, epipremnum aureum and plectranthus verticillatus, will be stunted or halt totally in root growth when placed in a container containing either aci…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find the effects of ash on radish plants. Methods/Materials The experimenter used ash from Julian, California; potting soil; Burpee radi…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals In my project I investigated the effects of different amounts of light energy on plant growth. Methods/Materials My four light treatments were 0 Watts, 4 Watts, 25 Watts, an…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the growth effects of various light sources: incandescent, fluorescent, and natural sunlight on lima bean seedlings. I propose that plants gro…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I plan to examine the contrasting results in plant growth, development, and health, as well soil pH and nitrogen concentration that result from the use of organic and inorga…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to study how temperature and pH affect the germination and early growth of Mung Beans. Methods/Materials My experiment was done in 2 groups, temperature and…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to evaluate the growth pattern of corn plants when limiting critical macronutrients in hydroponic growing solutions. My hypothesis is that…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to reduce the amount of material necessary to make Andros spring wheat herbicide resistant by showing that the use of the GFP gene could simplify the process…
CSEF · 2004
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To investigate the conservation of gene function among plant species, the translatability of two, morphology-governing genes, BREVIPEDICELLUS LIKE (BPL) and NO APICAL DOMINA…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals By feeding 2 young tomato plants carrot juice with organic substance, injecting 1 tomato plant with carrot juice, and by cutting a tomato plant open and injecting carrot jui…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see what amount of light (a little or a lot)makes a plant grow through a maze the farthest. Methods/Materials Part 1: Making the Mazes . I got…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Evolutionary relationships within the Class Phaeophyceae (brown algae) have long been a source of discussion and speculation. Previously the Orders Ectocarpales and Scytosip…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Characterizing genes that control photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Knowledge from this may allow crops to be genetically engineered so that they may grow under di…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Cryogenics is the new generation of cold storage. The theme of the following tests completed was to observe the characteristics and outcomes of cryogenically frozen seedling…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether the thickness of the glass walls of a greenhouse affects plant growth. Methods/Materials Four glass cubes with thickness of : 1/16", 3/1…
CSEF · 2003
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment's purpose is to determine whether an optimal level* of salt concentration exists for radish plants. I expect that an optimal level exists at 2x10^-4 M, becau…