Humans stress. We all know this. This is when the world just becomes too much. Parents, teachers, homework, life! And when we stress, your immune system takes a holiday making you all the more vulnerable to diseases!
But, it’s not only humans that stress. Not even just animals! Plants feel stress as well. And when they stress, disease is never far away. Or is it?
Join the CTHB team to unravel the mysteries of stress in plants. We will be exploring different kinds of stresses in plants, to see if any of these might open up a plant to disease. To do this, some plants will be subjects to stress and then exposed to a Bacterial infection. The idea is simple: More stress will make more death!
Grade 11 learners will learn to work with plant inoculations, and also do DNA isolation, PCR amplification, DNA sequencing and bacterial identification. Following Koch’s postulates, we will attempt to show that plants can stress, and this makes them more vulnerable to disease. Because let’s face it: if plants stress themselves to death, what will happen to us humans?
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