Studying the plant-rhizobia mutualism in the classroom – a guided inquiry activity
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Studying the plant-rhizobia mutualism in the classroom – a guided inquiry activity
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Outline
• Brief background– Scientific methods– Study system
• Designing your experiment– Control– Replication– Randomization
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Observation
Background Research
Hypothesis/Predictions
Experiment
Data analysis
Not consistent with hypothesis
Consistent with
hypothesis
Scientific Methods
Question
Conclusion
Answer?
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Soybean
Rhizobia
CO2+H2O +light C6H12O6+O2
N2 NH3
Phot
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is Nitrogen Fixation
What happens when you add
N in the system?
Background
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Fertilizer in agriculture
“….addition of N fertilizer can lead to lower production of nodules in legumes (Rubio Arias et al. 1999; Vargas, Mendes &Hungeria 2000) as well as lower N2fixation rates per nodule (Denison & Harter 1995).”
Background
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Scientific Questions:
1) How do rhizobia affect plant growth?
2)How does nitrogen fertilization affect plant-rhizobia interaction?
Questions
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Hypotheses
Question1: How do rhizobia affect plant growth?
Hypothesis1:Rhizobia increase plant performance
Hypothesis 2: Fertilized plants have fewer nodules than non-fertilized plants.
Question2: How does nitrogen fertilization affect plant-rhizobia interaction?
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Predictions
Question1: How do rhizobia affect plant growth?
Hypothesis1:Rhizobia increase plant performance
Hypothesis 2: Fertilized plants have fewer nodules than non-fertilized plants.
Question2: How does nitrogen fertilization affect plant-rhizobia interaction?
Prediction 1: Rhizobia inoculated plants will have greater biomass than non-inoculated plants
Prediction 2: fertilized plants will have fewer nodules than non-fertilized plants.
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1) How do rhizobia affect plant growth?How can we test it?
The control and experimental groups must be identical in all relevant ways except for the introduction of a suspected causal agent into the experimental group.
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Control Treatment 1
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Treatment2
Experiment
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Experimental Design
• Control• Replication• Randomization
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Replication
Repetition of a experiment to test the validity of its conclusion + +
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Experiment
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Randomization
-Assign treatment randomly to an experimental group
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Experiment
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Prediction
Control Rhiz (+) Nitrogen (+)
Plan
t Size
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Prediction
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2) How does nitrogen fertilization affect plant-rhizobia interaction?
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Experiment
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Predictions:
N (-) N (+)
Plan
t Size
N (-) N (+)
# N
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Predictions
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Experimental DesignCombining Experiment 1&2
n = 10
n = 10
n = 10
n = 10
Each group: 4 treatments x 2 rep = 8 samples Class total = 40
Question 1
Question 2
Experiment
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After 1 month….
Record: - Plant height (cm)- Number of leaves- Number of nodules- Aboveground biomass- Belowground biomass
3) Plot graphs using the class data