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 · 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…
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.…
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…
AJAS · 2018
Plant Sciences (inferred)
Commercially available compost is not always accessible and cannot always be trusted to be environmentally safe. The most basic problem with commercially available compost is that one doesn’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AJAS · 2018
Plant Sciences (inferred)
As urbanization often proceeds uncontrolled and unsupervised, organisms in nearby waterways are especially vulnerable to the effects of sewage, waste, and chemical contamination. Recent repo…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…