The first Farm Bureau Scholar at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke is a devoted vegetable, flower and fruit gardener.Working this summer at UNCP’s Biotechnology Business and Training Laboratory, Brittany Locklear showed off samples of roses, ferns and lilies that she is micro-propagating under grow lights.
“This augur solution contains everything the plants need to grow, just like soil,” Locklear said. “I’ve been making more solution today.”
Locklear is interning in a National Institute of Health-funded program between UNCP and Robeson Community College (RCC). Besides plant propagation, she is working on bacterial transference using streptococcus epidermidis.
“I’m learning a lot about lab work,” she said. “But I enjoy gardening, and I really like being outdoors.”
