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| Explore | Some background information that our group knows based on articles that we have read in class that will help us with our project are, that for a disease to infect and impact a crop it must have three things, a susceptible host, a virulent pathogen, and a conducive environment. The soft rot... |
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| Research Question | We want to study what a potato will do in hot and room temperatures. One potato will be infected with a disease and the other will be a controlled potato. Both potatoes will be poked 4 times about 3 cm deep into it. |
| Predictions | The possible outcomes of our study given the variables of: how we’re going to measure the area of the bacteria infected, the percentage of the potato that the bacteria will infect, and also observing them under a microscope. My prediction is that the potatoes will rot if there is moisture added... |
| Experimental Design | We will have 4 potatoes in total, two potatoes will be infected with the disease by poking the infected toothpick 3 cm deep four pokes in each potato, and the other two potatoes will be controlled potatoes that are just poked with toothpicks. An infected and controlled potato will be incubated at... |
| Conclusion | The results supported the hypothesis that heat does impact the rotting rate of potatoes. However, we can infer that our potatoes were already infected/had in them already some type of bacterial pathogen due to the rate they rotted at. For the data that we collected we gathered quantifiable data... |
| About this Project |
Green and Leafy exhibited excellent communication skills-they and their mentor chatted regularly. They also completed their project information and provided detailed descriptions, analysis, and interpretation of their results. Great job all around! -- John Bennett,... |
Updates
We can conclude that the incubator intensified the grow of bacteria rapidly- although the one that was not injected with bacteria, rotted faster. Could you tell us why the controlled potatoes rotted faster than the infected ones?
That's an interesting observation. My thinking is that maybe the potatoes had some other rotting pathogen already. Most rotting pathogens can be present on potatoes without showing any symptoms, but when the conditions they love are present usually high temperature and high humidity, they grow very fast.
We took them out because our teacher Mr. V told us to. we had also observed them and cut them to see what they looked like on the inside, so we concluded our experiment and saw that the controlled potatoes had been mushier than infected. The mushiest potatoes had been controlled potatoes from the incubator. the infected had the cork on the inside, unlike the controlled potatoes.
Oh great you had concluded the experiment. From the results what can you conclude?
We took them out because our teacher Mr. V told us to. we had also observed them and cut them to see what they looked like on the inside, so we concluded our experiment and saw that the controlled potatoes had been mushier than infected. The mushiest potatoes had been controlled potatoes from the incubator. the infected had the cork on the inside, unlike the controlled potatoes.
Hello! I just wanted to catch you up on what we have done with our potatoes. We got 16 potatoes, 8 infected and 8 controlled. We put 4 infected and 4 controlled potatoes in an incubator at 90 degrees for a day but had to take them out for the weekend, and the rest of the potatoes have been a room temperature.
hello, may I ask why you had to take them out for the weekend?
Hey! We just wanted to let you know what we are doing for our experiment and to see what ideas you have about it. We were going to have four potatoes and see what they would do in two different temperatures. each potato will be poked with a toothpick about 3 cm deep, but two potatoes will be infected with some potato rot juice, while the other two will be controlled. one of a controlled potato and an infected potato will be put in an incubator at 90 degrees Fahrenheit for four days, while the other two will be put at room temperature, 72 degrees Fahrenheit for the same amount of time. does this sound good, and what are your thoughts about it? Thank you!!
The idea is great, but we need more potatoes for us to see that what we observe is the same over all the potatoes in each group. So i suggest you do 16 potatoes with four potatoes in each group.
Hi, my name is Lilli unfortunately I wasn't here when we first introduced ourselves, but I am really excited to learn with everyone, and create a very interesting and hopefully successful project together. One question I have for you is, which part of the plant is your favorite to learn about and fascinates you?
My name is Holden and I attend WRHS. I hope to learn much from this experience and am excited to uncover the secrets of potatoes as I am from Idaho. I noticed you have a rich background in botany, how did you find this passion? Thank you so much for engaging in my group's education, and I can't wait to start.
Hello Holden,
I am excited for you to be part of this project and guarantee you will learn so much. I was just curious about how living things function. That curiosity and knowing that studying plant biology would help my country tackle different issues in agriculture led me to study plant sciences.
Hello, My name is Gretchen. I´m a junior in high school, and I'm currently in botany and zoology class. I'm so excited to have you as a mentor and work with you on this project.
My question for you is what's your favorite monocot???
Hello Gretchen,
I am not a monocot kinda person, they are hard to change their DNA (Transform). I love dicots they are very easy to work with. Glad you are here and are excited to be part of this project!
Hello, my name is Vera Lucia and I’m a junior, currently in zoology and botany lab class. I’m so excited about working on this project with you! What was your favorite aspect of taking biology that drove you to love it so much, and making it your career?
Hello Vera,
Glad you are excited to be here and are looking forward to this project. From an early age, i love to study how living thing function. So the very aspect of Biology i am fond of is finding out how a plant does what it does. For example, how do plants fight pathogens if they cannot run away from them? So it is that curiosity that drives me.
My name is Holden and I attend WRHS. I hope to learn much from this experience and am excited to uncover the secrets of potatoes as I am from Idaho. I noticed you have a rich background in botany, how did you find this passion? Thank you so much for engaging in my group's education, and I can't wait to start.