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 · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to answer following questions: 1. How does a fruit become ripe? 2. What biochemical and physiological changes happen when a fruit ripens? 3.…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Towards enhancing fruit production, the purpose of this experiment was to eliminate Mini Zinc Fingers 1 and 2 (MZF1/2) from Arabidopsis thaliana using the genome editing met…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find which tropism will exhibit a more dominant effect on plants: Phototropism or Gravitropism. This information can be useful in deve…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of "Plants vs. Radiation', is to determine the effect of the suns's radiation on plant growth. Methods/Materials 4 groups of 3 Basil Plants in 12 cardboard box…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This project is to test which angle of rose stem cut can increase the longevity of roses the most. Methods/Materials 18 fresh uncut roses of same conditions harvested on the…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine whether or not an unripened fruit can be ripened faster by apples when they are stored together. Another goal was to see if eith…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to use our experiment to show the possible effects that the pH, phosphate, and nitrate level in soaps may have in plants as soapy water is o…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The experiment aimed to identify what approximate amount of daily recycled water produced the highest ratio of fruit to water expended for squash plants in a tiered system.…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to design a more targeted and effective biocontrol agent to reduce the impact of bacterial brown spot disease on green beans. I hypothesized…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Three different agricultural systems for growing crops were tested for their effectiveness. The hypothesis for this experiment was that Allium cepa (green onion) specimens c…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My project's objective is to determine if almond byproducts can be used as an effective soil amendment. I studied the growth of tall fescue grass seed to determine if the ad…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test the effect of heat on bean plant growth, in relation to climate change. Methods/Materials 60 bean plant seeds in pots, 3 small gr…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see if the germination of seeds could be affected by music differently than noise or silence. Methods/Materials Cucumber and radish seeds…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Pathogenicity by the plant pathogenic Streptomyces scabies, the causative agent of common scab disease on various economically important root and tuber crops, is triggered b…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Current research on plant-derived smoke shows that it functions similar to plant growth hormones. The objective was to test the response of traditional Yemeni watermelon to…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals To test possible effects of application of abscisic acid on unstressed and water stressed Brassica rapa, and see if ABA's role in stomata and water usage in a plant would he…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which amendment to soil, chicken manure or Miracle-Gro fertilizer, would help a snow pea plant develop quickest. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Test the silver nanoparticles found in silver nitrate to see if their antibacterial properties will have good and/or bad effects on radishes. Methods/Materials Silver nitrat…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine what effect the inoculation of endomycorrhizae fungi on tomato seedlings at the time of planting vs. tomato seedlings grown in cow manure has on…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Incubator farming is an effective way to consistently grow plants year round in a controlled environment. However, the cost of lighting in an incubator is a big factor in th…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to understand how native coastal sage scrub species' individual physiological traits impact their health and growth in various environments. Met…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Used coffee grinds (UCG) are increasingly becoming a huge waste problem. To mitigate this problem my experiment is about reusing UCG as soil to grow plants. Research shows U…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The problem that is being addressed is that many people do not have the money to buy new vegetables every week, so by doing this project, it will help people know which meth…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to determine the affects of acid rain, vinegar, on aquatic plants. Methods/Materials 20 Bamboo plants 5 Identical 2 quart containers Rule…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Evaluate the effect of the biopesticides based on a plant extract, beneficial bacteria, and entomopathogenic fungi, on cotton plants infected with the fungal plant pathogen,…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine if sweet pepper plants (capsicum annuum) would grow taller when they were be watered with Vitamin C solution, Vitamin D3 solution, or water. Methods…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals With concerns about food safety and the exact contents of each bite of produce, it is important to see how plants absorb nutrients. This study examined macromolecule absorpt…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The water mold Phytophthora cinnamomi has been wreaking havoc on California avocado crops for decades. It infects the roots of avocado trees, resulting in an eventual death.…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if there is a ratio that describes the height of a redwood tree compared to its base circumference. Methods/Materials I used the equation of ta…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Traditionally, tissue cultured plantlets use sugar provided in the medium for energy because the jars in which they are housed are sealed. My objective was to test if sectio…