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.
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Specialty metabolites used in food, medicine, pesticides, and fragrances are valuable in virtue of their unique properties, but they face challenges in production due to high costs associate…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Having active and healthy soil is important. Decomposition of organic matter is vital to healthy soil and better for the health and growth of plants. The amount of microflora activity of fun…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project is to inhibit the growth of pioppini mushrooms via one- and ten-percent solutions of iodine, sodium thiosulfate, and vitamin C, with a combination solution of eac…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Through a combination of genetic barcoding with morphological recognition we developed a novel method to more accurately identify invasive plant species than conventional methods. By utilizi…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology First Award
Plant photosynthesis is responsible for absorbing 25% of CO2 created on Earth. Research also shows indoor plants have abilities to reduce indoor air pollution. However, little attention has…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
The symbiosis between pollinators and plants have been examined in many previous studies. Research at ETH Zürich showed that bee-bite damaged crops flowered days to weeks faster than non-bit…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Water is one of the most valuable natural resources in our planet. According to Environmental Protection Agency (2017), due to climate change, the western part of the United States is gettin…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment is to evaluate two transgenic and one exogenous approach to ameliorating decreased protein synthesis under elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) in A. thaliana, as wel…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Climate change is wrecking the agricultural sector, with summer water availability decreasing while water needs are increasing worldwide. UC Merced estimates that over $3 billion in agricult…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if a hardy rootstock system may be grafted with a productive branch scion to form a productive hybrid. Russian Olive trees are known to be very s…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Through decades of endless carbon emissions and multiple energy crises, current renewable energy sources remain environmentally harmful, inconsistent, and energetically inefficient. A partic…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the changes in biodiversity and species composition of bryophytes (mosses and related species) within Hot Springs National Park in relation to the co…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Second Award
• Plants produce molecules, such as flavonoids, which can protect leaves from harmful UV light. My hypothesis was that plants with more sun exposure would produce more UV absorbing molecules…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Plants have evolved diverse and complex defense systems in response to insect herbivory. Insect herbivory initiates signal transduction pathways in plants, leading to the creation of defense…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Second Award
`Macrophomina phaseolina (M. phaseolina) is a soil-borne fungus that impacts many crops and can cause diseases, such as charcoal rot. Therefore, it is necessary to find a successful way to r…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Third Award
Lead is one of the most common heavy metal pollutants, causing an estimated 1 million deaths each year worldwide. Current methods to purify lead-contaminated water can cost thousands of doll…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The morphological traits of a plant’s seeds impact how well they are able to disperse over time, which is a crucial mechanism for reproduction, gene flow, and the movement of plant species i…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Access to soil analysis is limited in developing countries due to lack of equipment, expertise, and infrastructure. On-the-go soil sensors have emerged as a cost-effective solution to soil t…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Our world is headed toward a severe climate crisis: predicted to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next two decades. Carbon dioxide represents 80% of polluting greenhouse gas emissions (412…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Advancing manned space exploration and habitation may require rethinking the fundamental expectations of plant growth. Plants orient themselves through gravitropism and phototropism; or usin…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The experiment conducted serves as a novel procedure in which lead extraction is possible in drinking water through the usage of bioremediation, which is cheap and affordable to socioeconomi…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In this quantitative research, the possible relationship between arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) and heavy metal absorption of four different plant genera was examined. The null hypothesis for th…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In the next 25-30 years, the human population is expected to grow by over 2 billion people. To combat the increase in food consumption that accompanies this population growth, food productio…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Microplastics (MPs) are a pervasive environmental contaminant that pose a threat to both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Specifically, agricultural soils are widely exposed to MPs that ca…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Our project was observing seedling growth in micro gravity. By using a motor we could show 3 batches that each contained 9 samples of seedlings. Then reported on their growth as they develop…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Over the past couple of years, giant pandas have been vulnerably endangered as bamboo forests disappear from the face of the Earth. The giant panda's diet consists almost entirely of bamboo,…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Third Award
Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are extensively used in many applications. They spread into nature, contaminating soil and water and raising concerns about plant/human health. However, the…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Gibberellic acid is a growth hormone found naturally in plants. This experiment’s primary goal was to find the most effective gibberellin concentration to use on green beans to promote growt…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Gravitropism is a natural phenomenon occurring within plants that allows for the direction of roots and stems to be oriented to the strongest gravitational field for optimized growth and ger…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Fourth Award
This experiment examined how varying Ibuprofen (IBU) concentrations affect the growth rate and germination success of Lactuca sativa (lettuce). It is hypothesized that Lactuca sativa. seeds…