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Plant Sciences
COVID-19 pandemic is life-threatening. We need to boost our body's immunity against infection. Literature review shows that microgreens can provide nine times more vitamins and minerals than…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Global warming and the rapidly growing world population are among the most serious issues that threaten global food security. A new approach to support plant productivity is through exploiti…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
Dental Caries and Periodontitis are two of the most common oral diseases causing growing global health issues in many countries around the world. Current therapeutic methods are focused on u…
Plant Sciences
The wavelength and intensity of light regulates the growth and development of plants and influences their physiology and morphology both above and below the ground. To study the effects of l…
Plant Sciences
Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover) is a wild legume species found rarely in Northern European seaside areas and is genetically close to domesticated clover species. Seven micro-populat…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to observe how overcrowding in soybeans affects their growth. To investigate this idea, the student planted one to eight seeds of 2 soybean varieties in 5 c…
Plant Sciences
Sedges, such as purple and yellow nutsedge, are extremely harmful weeds that are hurting the agricultural industry. It is imperative that we find a solution to control nutsedge growth in Flo…
Plant Sciences
Guava is a commercial fruit of Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand. From guava orchard surveys, most of fruit damage caused by fruit flies (Bactrocera spp). Therefore, this study aimed to invent…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
Plant pigment biochemistry is known to change during environmental stress. This work investigates the influence of artificial light-induced stress by exposure to light sources of varying wav…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
The Cypripedium (Cyp.) genus of terrestrial orchids is limited to a narrow range of climates and habitats throughout the world. Climate change related habitat loss has profound implications…
Plant Sciences
The shape and size of a plant’s seed impact how well it is able to scatter and move over time, notably in changing environmental circumstances. As the environment changes, the survival of th…
Plant Sciences
The importance of soils for the environment and for humans is often underestimated. Soils are an integral component of nutrient and water cycles and ultimately constitute our basis of life.…
Plant Sciences
Stem cells are critical for the development of all tissue types. The stem cells located within the Shoot Apical Meristem (SAM) of plants produce all above-ground plant parts that account for…
Plant Sciences
Due to weather-related constraints, taking care of Plants in an indoor environment is a challenging task. Several factors influence the growing process of Plants, including soil humidity, hu…
Plant Sciences
Inspired by the low and declining cropland microorganism populations in agriculture today, the goal of my study was to determine if specific cropland soil adjustments could better prepare so…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
Desertification, which is increasing at an alarming rate, imposes food insecurities for nations with huge desert areas and weakens ecosystems. Many methods, like sand fences, have been devel…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Recent Innovations in Precision Agriculture (PA) are driven by Computer Vision and Data Processing systems to quantify plant parameters. Quantitative analysis of Plant Phenotyping in PA and…
Plant Sciences
Eggplant is an important vegetable crop, which is rich in varieties with high nutritional and medicinal values. However, the reduction of output often occurred in the eggplant production bec…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Striga species, particularly S. hermonthica, is a serious parasite and one of the major threats to food security, especially in third-world countries. They are causing significant loss to ce…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
Harvesting Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crabs) to produce the Limulus amoebocyte lysate endotoxin assay for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and drinking water is ravaging coastal ecosyste…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
Cypripedium arietinum, or ram’s head lady’s slipper orchids, are endangered in New Hampshire and threatened in Vermont. A genetically diverse population will be more able to adapt to a chang…
Plant Sciences
Micronutrient deficiencies, also known as hidden hunger, occur when an individual does not receive an adequate amount of an essential vitamin or mineral, and it affects more than two billion…
Plant Sciences
I studied and tested the ability of freshwater aquatic plants to create a symbiotic atmosphere with mice relative to the plant’s surface area. What was found was that plants with a higher su…
Plant Sciences
Fertilizers (chemical substances that are added to soil) supply plants with nutrients to promote faster and better germination and growth. The research was carried out to determine the most…
Plant Sciences
Lonicera maackii is an invasive honeysuckle species native to East Asia. There are detailed records on how this species of honeysuckle out-competes and pushes out flora native to Kentucky; i…
Plant Sciences
Chinese privet and nandina are aggressive invasive species that have spread throughout Hot Springs National Park. Herbicide is not environmentally friendly or able to be used in parts of the…
Plant Sciences
Decomposition is nature’s way of recycling. Organic matter breaks down over time and will turn into a black substrate containing nutrients that plants use. In this project tomatoes, bananas,…
Plant Sciences
Farmers across the nation feed their cattle some form of fibrous plant material such as alfalfa. Soybean prices are decreasing, so forage soybeans are being considered as an alternative graz…
Plant Sciences
It is said that the triangle is one of architecture’s strongest shapes, but what about in nature? What shape found in plant xylems is the strongest? Each plant xylem has a unique shape. For…
AJAS · 2022
Plant Science
This project aims to identify interactors of RGPA1, a gene which induces plant defense responses, by using a Yeast two-hybrid screening. Potential interactors are tested to see whether they…