On Thursday, I presented my research from the REEU to the public as well as my peers and their mentors. I enjoyed the experience as it was interesting to see people engaging in my project. I surprised myself with how many questions I could answer and was proud of the work I did over the summer. I intend to pursue research and genetics in graduate school, so I am grateful for this experience. When I entered this program, I knew I liked plants but was unaware of the rewarding work involving genetics. I hope to use genetics in the future to continue understanding and improving plants.
This week, my lab took a trip to Florida to harvest some tomatoes we had in Floridian fields. I learned some tomato terms like "breaker" (a tomato in between green/red) and "inflorescence" (a flowering group) while getting my field experience. The project works with the University of Florida which was kind enough to let us use some lab space while we were there. We chopped up tomatoes to observe their volatiles in GCMS for a Ph.D. student in our lab. I enjoyed the experience because it gave me another opportunity to explore a lab space dedicated to plant science and I was able to see interesting Floridian wildlife. We arrived at the fields in the early morning; these are the fields we harvested. Above is a bug that was blended into a plant in Florida that we saw on our trip. After returning to Georgia, we set to work to extract DNA from the F6 generation from the greenhouse in addition to the parental lines. By extracting one cotyledon from each plant, we had enoug
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