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ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
What if people could naturally purify the air in and around their homes? Instead of using filters, and harsh chemicals, people could grow small moss gardens in their homes to rid the air of…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Over time, human populations in coastal areas have affected the environment more and more. Nutrients in marshes and salt pans are increasing due to human impact. Nutrient pollution is one of…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The soil water balance is determined by the soil structure. Due to climate change, optimizing the water balance of agricultural soils is desired. In my previous project, I conceptualized the…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Several third-world countries and places on Earth have infertile soil for plant and crop growth. Hydroponics is the concept of growing plants without soil but with added nutrients. This expe…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Third Award
Southern Root-Knot Nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita) are microscopic roundworms that act as parasites, causing devastating damage to crops worldwide. These parasites primarily target the roo…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In plants, roots typically do not perform photosynthesis because of the division of labor with the leaves and stems. However, it has been reported that Taeniophyllum aphyllum, a plant specie…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
With the increased necessity for sustainable agriculture comes the need to understand the complex systems plants use for growth. One of these systems is the GS/GOGAT cycle, a mechanism used…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
In the experiment, four groups of five trees each were tested to determine if Pseudomonas fluorescens or Mycorrhizal fungi would improve the success rate of grafting with trees. The tests we…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Pollutants have been shown to affect soil characteristics, particularly soil pH. Microplastics, an increasingly widespread pollutant, increase soil pH, according to literature. To understand…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences First Award
The acylated flavonoid glycosides (AFGs) in Pseudognaphalium affine (D. Don) Anderberg, a plant resource that has the concomitant function of both medicine and foodstuff in China, exhibited…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The world is facing a crisis as the ozone layer thins and allows more UV rays to pass through. Specifically, as of 2019, all UVC (? = 100-280 nm) is absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere, and the U…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
This project’s purpose was to measure how much the addition of compost in soil would affect the growth of Capsicum annuum. Compost boosts plant growth by adding vital nutrients to soil. Comp…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Peanuts are an important oil and food crop. The calcium essential to pod growth and peanut productivity is obtained mainly via roots, so root growth is of key importance. Research has shown…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
There is growing interest in the Cannabacaea family for therapeutic and clinical use. Best known for hemp and marijuana (Cannabis sativa), this family also includes the Humulus lupulus (comm…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Drought is one of the prime environmental constraints for plant growth and productivity in the world. While plant stress is usually controlled by multiple factors, conventional investigation…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Conventional agricultural practices have resulted in infertile soils, excessive use of pesticides, nutrient run-offs, reduced microbial activities and depleted water resources for soil culti…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
This project investigated the difference in growth of tomato plants experiencing saline stress when injected with methylene blue dye. The procedures followed were similar to those outlined b…
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…
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…
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…