Congratulations to Darragh Twomey, Aubane, and Neil O’Leary, Prohus, who were runners-up in the Group Category of the BT Young Scientist Competition at the RDS in Dublin, also getting the Agricultural Innovation prize from Teagasc, and well as the Perrigo Best Biological and Ecological Project. They discovered that the common natural bacteria found in plants, Pseudomonas Fluorescens, could be used to markedly increase the yield of certain barley crops. Both are students at Coláiste Treasa, Kanturk.
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The overall runner-up group prize was collected by 16-year-olds, Darragh Twomey, Andrew Heffernan and Neil O’Leary from Coláiste Treasa in Kanturk in Cork.
For their project ‘Feeding 9.6 billion people by 2050. The effects of Pseudomonas Fluorescens L321 on enhancing barley crop yield’, they discovered that the common natural bacteria found in plants, Pseudomonas Fluorescens, could be used to markedly increase the yield of certain barley crops.
This, they predict, could make it a low cost easy method of increasing food production in parts of the world where there is food poverty. [RTÉ News]
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Congratulations Darragh, Andrew and Neil winners of a special from @teagasc @BTYSTE pic.twitter.com/0OhO6fXlqd
— Coláiste Treasa (@colaistetreasa) January 12, 2018
@colaistetreasa Congratulations to Group Runners up Darragh Twomey, Neil O’Leary & Andrew Heffernan TY Students from Colaiste Treasa Kanturk Project entitled Feeding 9.6 Billion by 2050” #BTYSTE pic.twitter.com/fAJb5jbMT4
— BT Young Scientist (@BTYSTE) January 12, 2018
So mega proud of my son Andrew (centre) with his group Daragh & Neil as they have won 3 #BTYSTE awards this evening!!@BTYSTE @colaistetreasa pic.twitter.com/RTDw5KvVI3
— Deborah (@Debs_Heffernan) January 12, 2018
Neily O’Leary and Darragh Twomey
See also: Rathcoole’s Successful Science Students!
https://stbrendansrathcoole.scoilnet.ie/blog/2018/01/22/rathcooles-successful-science-students/
