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ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Ocean acidification is the increase in acidity of ocean waters due to the absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere. This negatively impacts many marine organisms, especially those that build ca…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if growing Chlorella kessleri algae in water treated by Panicum hemitomon (maidencane) increases the amount of lipids, which can be extracted f…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The integration of a microbial fuel cell-microbial electrolysis cell (MFC-MEC) generator into an aquaponics unit for more efficient hydrogen production has been tested. The goal of this proj…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Third Award
Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes protecting ends of eukaryotic chromosome from damage. Plant telomeres consist of the typical tandemly repeated motif TTTAGGG(n), but rare changes of tel…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Coffee (Coffea arabica) constitutes in Costa Rica and in the canton of Acosta, a fundamental part of its economy, due to this, there is interest in varieties with high productivity and resis…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Iodine deficiencies are a major problem around the world, especially in developing nations where people do not get all the nutrients they need from their diets. Currently, iodized salt is th…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
It can be found that lichen are commonly used as bioindicators by scientists in order detect air pollution. This project was targeted at evaluating if lichens can be used as bioindicators ju…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Auxin polarization induced by PIN3 genes is critical in effectuating plant phototropism. Upon activation by phototropins that detect light and inhibit the activity of the PINOID kinase (PID)…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Around 815 million people around the world suffer from hunger (World Hunger, 2016). The purpose of this experiment is to increase vegetable production of aquaponics systems. Aquaponics is a…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
This project focuses on a potential treatment delivery method for the bacterial disease, Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, that has devastated Florida’s 9-billion-dollar citrus industry. HL…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
This project sought to determine if the similarities in transduction of mammalian and plant action potentials through ion channels could allow use of a unique plant indicator, the Mimosa pud…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The overall goal is to identify a non-destructive real-time PCR-based method allowing for rapid genotypic selection in Lactuca sativa (lettuce) seedlings at an early stage of development. Th…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Better understanding fruit growth and development could result in an increase in the world’s food and feed supply. This project employed classical molecular approaches together with a new ge…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Feeding nine billion people is a daunting task, but the reality we will face by the mid twenty-first century. Population growth and climate change will require alteration of agricultural pra…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Second Award
Plant growth and productivity is greatly affected by climate change, especially in hot and dry climates. Scientists use various methods to study gene families and find genes that respond to…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Kumar, Khurana, and Sharma, (2014) indicate that plant hormones have been extensively studied for their roles in the regulation of various aspects of plant development. However, new insights…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The advent of epidemiological concerns within recent years has promulgated a thorough premise for research rooted in preventative measures and protections of public health. This study was co…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Turfgrass is extremely important to many homeowners, athletes, and other people. It gives homeowners’ lawns a healthy, aesthetic appeal. Athletes use turfgrass to play sports. One fundamenta…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Hydroponic, which is a new kind of agriculture that only depends on a fertilizer solution to provide plants with the required nutrients without the need for soil, has been widely used recent…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Second Award
Purpose of this project is to show whether the toxical pyrrolizidine alkaloids of senecio jacobaea can pollute the local honey. These toxicants are carcinogenic, mutagen and moreover accumul…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
One theory of how plants detect a change in gravity is the starch-statolith hypothesis. The hypothesis states during a change in gravity, statoliths, starch-containing organelles, settle to…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Still water in floral buckets often produces bacteria, leading to shorter life, inventory shrink, a loss of money and waste of salvageable flowers. A plan was composed to aerate water in the…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Two critical factors are involved in blooming of the morning glory, Pharbitis nil, a popular summer-flowering plant in Japan: (i) light/dark stimulus the evening before the day of flowering,…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Third Award
To determine the antimicrobial potential of tree bark extracts against two gram- negative bacteria (Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas fluorescens) and one gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus sub…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
With the advancement of the world, pollution has caused detrimental harm to the Earth such as global warming, and some smaller issues, such as acid rain. Acid rain generally measures at a pH…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
After the discovery of the electromagnetic field, people began to use these fields widely in everyday life. Today, it is impossible for people to reject radiological studies concerning mobil…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The effect of native Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina) and non-native African sumac (Rhus lancea) on biodiversity in the Sonoran Desert Cassidy Chamillard Tucson High Magnet School, Tucson…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Current tissue culture techniques use labor intensive propagation of seedlings which require lab-grade equipment and sterile environments. North American farmers are estimated to lose millio…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test if Glycine max can withstand a flood for a longer duration with the addition of Oscillatoria. If Oscillatoria is added to submerged Glycine max, then t…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The question for this experiment was to see how different pH levels affect plant growth. This was done by testing three different pH levels, which were pH 4, 6, and 9. We decided to do our e…