youtu.be/vL9N7O0uJoU No GMOs Here: These Three Girls Won a Global Science Prize for Boosting Crops Naturally by Up to 70% Émer Hickey, Ciara Judge, and Sophie Healy-Throw, hail from Cork, Ireland and originally set out to find a new, natural way to speed up the germination of seeds. Seeds are most vulnerable during this state, hence the importance of doing so. In the end they found themselves on the winning end of a contest involving 5,000 projects submitted by teenagers from 90 countries this past fall, the 2014 Google Science Fair. The same research previously also won the top prize at the 2013 European Union Contest for Young Scientists. The girls tested the performance of over 9,500 seed samples and recorded over 120,000 measurements by hand, showing that using this type of bacteria resulted in increased harvest yields of up to 70% for barley and oats.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:44:17 +0000
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