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The Effects of Exogenous Melatonin on the Germination and Growth of Bamboo

CSEF · 2023 Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award

Huynh Donna, Nguyen Maryan · 8

Overview

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, and this loss of habitat has contributed greatly to the slow decline of the giant panda population. Our team proposed the sufficient and simple idea of testing Melatonin's effect on bamboo; as studies exemplify evidence that exogenous Melatonin increases the germination and growth rate of plants that have difficulty doing so efficiently. To initiate our experiment, we purchased 2 pots of Golden Bamboo, separated the plants into individual pots, watered the plants with approximately 250mL of water, and added 0mg, 5mg, or 10mg of Melatonin. We decided to do 5 trials with 3 pots per trial; 2 of the pots were our experimental group and 1 of the pots was our control group. Upon observing our data, the 10mg pots had the greatest average difference between the initial and final height of the plant at 9.4cm. The 5mg pots ranked second at 6.3cm, and the 0mg pots ranked last at 6.2cm. Ultimately, the addition of Melatonin accelerates the germination and growth of bamboo plants due to Melatonin binding to CAND2/PMTR1 phytomelatonin; hence increasing the growth rate of bamboo.

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This record comes from a published award list, not a complete project archive. Its abstract comes from CSEF's public project showcase as archived by the Internet Archive before judging (https://web.archive.org/web/20230401224130/https://ca-csef.zfairs.com/showcase/ShowcaseInfo?f=838e60b7-ea75-46e8-865c-fde4864244b3); the version presented may differ.

Awards (1)

  • Category Award: HM

Competition history

  • CSEF 2023 Plant Biology · Entry J1809

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