Jewel Galloway

• SOAR Position: Member; Alumni
• Major: Biology
• Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Stephen Wright

Current Focus: Investigating the Plant Growth Promoting and Bio-control Activities of Bacillus Endophytes

Additional Interests: Environmental science

Project Description

Endophytes are microbes that colonize the internal tissues of plants and have been increasingly recognized as contributing to safe, efficient alternatives to toxic fertilizers and pesticides in modern agriculture. During the fall 2019, I conducted a pilot