Event Title
Allelopathic Effects of Cabbage and Garlic Slurries on Lettuce, Radish and Cabbage Seed Germination
Faculty Mentor
Allyse Ferrara
Location
Orchestra Room, Angelle Hall
Start Date
12-4-2014 10:45 AM
End Date
12-4-2014 11:45 AM
Description
Allelopathy is the inhibitory or stimulatory influence of one plant on germination, growth, or survival of another. Our purpose was to develop a simple allelopathy experiment for an introductory biology laboratory to test inhibitory allelopathic effects of cabbage and garlic slurries on the germination of cabbage, radish, and lettuce seeds. Five-day trials (25 and 30°C) were run in triplicate for each seed type treated with garlic slurry, cabbage slurry or water as a control. Garlic slurry was more strongly allelopathic than cabbage slurry for all seed types and at 30°C allelopathic inhibition of germination was lower than at 25°C.
Allelopathic Effects of Cabbage and Garlic Slurries on Lettuce, Radish and Cabbage Seed Germination
Orchestra Room, Angelle Hall
Allelopathy is the inhibitory or stimulatory influence of one plant on germination, growth, or survival of another. Our purpose was to develop a simple allelopathy experiment for an introductory biology laboratory to test inhibitory allelopathic effects of cabbage and garlic slurries on the germination of cabbage, radish, and lettuce seeds. Five-day trials (25 and 30°C) were run in triplicate for each seed type treated with garlic slurry, cabbage slurry or water as a control. Garlic slurry was more strongly allelopathic than cabbage slurry for all seed types and at 30°C allelopathic inhibition of germination was lower than at 25°C.