The idea here is to determine whether plants that grow faster due to "special treatment" produce as much alkaloid per gram of dry tissue as the negative control plants in wild populations. (If it were found that faster-growing plants have alkaloid concentrations lower than those of the untreated control plants, then the next question would be, how long does it take for the fast-growing plants to attain an alkaloid concentration similar to that of the negative controls?) Such a study can be done (again with volunteer labor and expertise) for about $1,000 to cover supplies, glassware and mass spectrometry lab fees. |
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