Project Information:
Grade Category: 10-12
Team Size: 1
Subject Area: Biology
Project Type: Experimental
Language: English
A Summary of your project
Salt stress is a major reason for limiting the available arable land. This
study investigated the physical manifestations of the responses of Arabidopsis
thaliana wild type and phytohormonal mutants subjected to salt stress.
The study also focused on ethylene¡¯s interactions with other hormones in response
to salt stress, utilizing phytohormone mutants and standard ethylene measuring
procedures.The phytohormonal mutants that were studied included plants with
altered ethylene, abscisic acid, auxin, and brassinosteroid biosynthesis or
perception. The results of this experiment suggested that as the salt concentration
increased, the plant would have poorer growth. It also suggested that there
might be an optimum salt stress level under very low salt concentration. The
results of this experiment suggested that one should use a combination of
ABA resistance, ethylene insensitive and BR overproducer mutations. The knowledge
gained from this study could lead to the development of better genetically
modified salt stress tolerant plants, which is a major problem that plagues
more than 35% of the world¡¯s arable lands.
Software Tools used: Dreamweaver 4.0, Photoshop 7.0
Hardware Tools used: Camera and scanner
Source of the Idea for the project: - I got the idea for this project
when I was thinking about finding out how salts concentrations, for example
road salts affect plants, and then I extended the project to studying
A description of the Special Skills you used to build your project: HTML,
JavaScript
A listing of any Awards won for the project: silver medal at Calgary
Youth Science Fair