About Samantha M. Soto
Interview by Vijayanta Jain
Major Microbiology
College Arts and Sciences
Accomplishments First Generation Scholarship, Dohoney AS Scholarship, Traditions Scholarship , Allie Clinton Scholarship, VP foor SACNAS
Research Interests natural medicine
About the Project
Title Plant Diversity
Presentation Watch the research video
Mentor Dr. Matt Olson
Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University
Comments
Is there significance to the polymorphism? What benefits/effects does it have? It would be interesting to learn a little more about that and the natural reasons behind it.
Would it be possible for you to trace the evolution of the traits you discussed back a few generations? Maybe see where they started to adapt and relate it back to a certain event to discover what may have incited the change?
For the Dioecy, do either female or male plants tend to have distinctive physical characteristics in structure or color? For example, you identified three male plants as the one with pollen, is this generally true for Dioecy? If not, how common is it?