About the Sci. project last year...

[turkeypig]

I took Mr. Fukada's advice, and did an experiment on the digestive enzymes of various drosera and nepenthes. I don't remember precisely, but it turns out that the enzymes on some neps are powerful enough to prevent any fungal growth (or bacterial growth, i think) for quite some time.
Of course, this is practically given, but just wanted to update you all on it. It was rated "the best" of about seven hundred projects; my teacher was *very* impressed.
If you want any more info, just let me know... needed to post something...

[Michael]

It sounds like an interesting project -- maybe you could post a summary of the project findings with a little more detail... :-)


Mike

[Brian Barnes]

Hello!

Details, man....DETAILS! ;D

Actually...would be great to hear how it all came out...

Brian.

[ICPS-bob]

Yes. Let us see your entire project report. If you need help, let me know.

[turkeypig]

of course. I just need to find it... might take a while.

[Myles]

i know this is a little dated but I'd love to see the project's results

[turkeypig]

I do not posses the required files at the moment, however, i do know what happened.

As i am not knowledgeable on fungi, bacteria, and their associated forms, so i am not going to state that something IS, rather what it appears to be.

The results showed that compared to the "glob of bathroom floor bacteria, fungi, etc" grown in a control petri dish of (nutritional) agar, the nepenthes (species forgotten) juices prevented growth of any kind for up to a few weeks (actual time may be greater or less than a week); remnants of the fungi or whatever it was grew later on, in areas untouched by the digestive liquids.

[Myles]

Thats pretty awesome, doesn't just make the nutrients available to the plant but also assures that the nutrients do not end up in the wrong hands

Thanks for the response tp