VIDEO. Google rewards three teenagers for their invention against the … – Le Parisien

 
                         
                         
             
              
             September 23, 2014, 3:23 p.m.
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“We like microbiology, we love gardening and we want to solve the food crisis,” they explain in the video presentation of their eminently scientific solution. This is the 2011 famine in East Africa that has sensitized to the issue of food shortage.

“We found the bacterium diazotrophe when mum Emer found nodules on the roots of his peas” says their page on the website of “Google Science Fair.” After some research, the trio realized that these nodules -small Malignancy contained a variety of natural rhizobia family of diazotrophic bacteria.

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Ciara and Sophie Emers tell they were then conducted a thorough study on their “impact on the rate of germination and development of wheat, oats and barley. ” “A detailed statistical analysis of our results showed that this strain of bacteria increases crop germination up to 50% and yields of barley by 74% This increase in cereal crops would greatly fight against the problem of poverty food globally and reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment by reducing fertilizer “analyze these Gearloose budding.

Their discovery has excited the jury of the 4th “Google Science Fair.” They won the Grand Prize and the prize in the 15-16 age group. Several thousand participants from around 90 countries had seen their online projects reviewed by a panel of scientists. In the final, the three teens were therefore beaten William Rolland, the young French and olfactory awakening, and fourteen other competitors from around the world for the final Grand Prix of the “Google Science Fair.”
Three girls from Cork had won the competition for young British scientists in 2013, they won a ten-day stay in the Galapagos Islands offered by National Geographic magazine, sponsor of the event and a scholarship 50,000 dollars (about 39,000 euros) from Google.