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Grace Stanton

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Although many studies have been conducted on Nepenthes-also known as pitcher plants-the method of determining the pitchers' direction of growth is still unknown. Nepenthes may be utilizing chemotropism, gravitropism, phototropism, thigmotropism, or a combination of tropisms. In order to formulate an effective approach in studying their growth, a Nepenthes alata (N. alata) plant was placed in a growth chamber with cameras focused on various positions of interest. The recorded videos from the cameras were fed into a deep learning framework called SLEAP in order to track the movement of any plant parts of interest. RNA sequencing analysis will be conducted on the transcriptomics data of the leaf tendrils; this will reveal which genes in the genome are key to influencing the direction of growth. The described approach involves tracking of plant movement through imaging and analysis of omics data can be utilized in determining the method of growth in N. alata or it can be adapted for other plant species. Since N. alata's growth patterns are unknown, this data will be able to fill a gap in the scientific knowledge, and the data may explain how N. alata's growth method has been perplexing the scientific community.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Grace Stanton