Fall 2015 Week 11

This week in lab I haven't done much on my endophyte project. I transferred very small squares of mycelium from the original test plates to plates that have fewer biological controls so I can characterize them.

The rest of the week I worked with Matt on the allelopathy project we have been doing. Some plants have compounds in their leaves that, when they fall to the ground, prevent seeds in the neighboring area to not germinate to lower the competition for resources. We are composting leaves that we know to have allelopathic traits and seeing if the chemicals prevent various seeds to germinate. So I spent all week counting seeds into petri plates in preparation of this experiment.