Obviously this weekend the news will be about the release of the new STAR WARS film. If you’re looking for an escape from this, or are just waiting in a very long queue, then here’s a YouTube film on microscopy in botany that came out recently.
Obviously this weekend the news will be about the release of the new STAR WARS film. If you’re looking for an escape from this, or are just waiting in a very long queue, then here’s a YouTube film on microscopy in botany that came out recently.
It’s part of a series from the Natural History Museum, and makes for a change from all the Hollywood hype and threadbare excuses to mention STAR WARS for a brief burst of visitors.
[fullclear /]Upon a bandwagon, we jump not.
Microscopy methods developed in the 1960s are still commonly used in plant science today but new low-cost techniques offer big advantages.
Over a century ago, the gametophytic calyptra was predicted to be covered by a cuticle that protects the sporophyte apex from desiccation. Budke et al. examine the moss Funaria hygrometrica using electron microscopy...
I’ve long had great respect and admiration for those pioneers of microscopy. Men – for such was the case in those ‘good old days’ – such as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke and Nehemiah Grew whose inquiry and...
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