Plant Sciences

Test how pulsed deficit irrigation changes basil water-use efficiency and learn sensor control, plant growth measurement, and data analysis.

Measure how tiny caffeine doses change stomatal aperture in Tradescantia, and build image-analysis skills with microscope photos and ImageJ.

Rank medicinal plants by cysteine-rich peptide motifs in public transcriptomes, and build bioinformatics skills in sequence mining, filtering, and scoring.

Analyze how C4 photosynthesis relates to plant diversification rates using phylogeny and trait data, and build real comparative biology skills.

Build a leaf-morphology phylogeny of urban trees, then compare it to DNA-based trees using ImageJ, CNNs, and public sequence data.

Test whether basil or marigold changes airborne spore counts in tomato beds, and build skills in sampling, microscopy, and data analysis.

Test how interrupted cold affects germination, then model seed response with thermal-time data to build real plant biology research skills.

Track radish germination across generations, estimate heritability, and learn how selection changes a trait you can measure at home.

Test how brushing changes stem length and strength, and learn how to measure plant growth responses with simple data analysis.

Test how leaf litter and microhabitat affect moss establishment on bricks, then practice field sampling, scoring, and simple ecology analysis.