Microscopy gallery


Green Transportation

Macroscopic images of two Arabidopsis thaliana plants loaded with a yellow/green fluorescent dye transported via the phloem to distant leaves. Red: Chloroplast auto-fluorescence.

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis seed stained with calcofluor

The calcufluor binds to cellulose and chitin. Cellulose is part of the plants' cell wall. Stereomicroscope.

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis flower, anther with pollen grains

Scanning electron microscope

May 15, 2012

GUS transient expression in the sugarcane leaf roll disc tissue.

Stereo microscope. 

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis pollen grain, mutant.

Scanning electron microscope.
© Colin Rupprecht, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Tobacco root meristem divisions stained with orcein

The orcein binds to chromosomes. Epi-fluorescence microscope.
© Maria Ignacia Fuentes, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis seedling root.

Dark field optics. Epi-fluorescence microscope.
© Katrin Piepenburg, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis with etiolated hypocotyl.

Mitochondria in phloem cell. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
© Clara Sanchez Rodriguez, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Nicotiana tabaccum, leaf mesophyll cells. Merged image - YFP, GFP, autofluorescence of chlorophyll.

Confocal microscope. © Sandra Stegemann, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Medicago truncatula root stained with alexa fluor 488.

Confocal microscope. © Julia Teply, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis silique.

Stained with GUS silique. Epi-fluorescence microscope.
© c. Geserick, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Peperomia metallica leaf in vivo.

Giantic lipid globules in mesophyll tissue cell. Transmission electron microscopy. © Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Convallaria (lily of the valley) stem, merged image

Confocal microscope.
© Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Hello Grim Reaper

Skull Xylem. Scanning electron microscope.
© Lutz Neumetzler, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis flower stained with GUS

Stereomicroscope
© Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis seedling with seed

Confocal microscope.
© Friedrich Kragler, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis pollen germination stained with aniline blue.

Epi-Fluorescence microscope.
© Arun Sampathkumar

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis thaliana flower, stigma

Environmental scanning electron microscope
© Martin Bringmann, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Tobacco leaf, cross section, stained with toluidine blue and lugol

Epi-fluorescence microscope, M. 200x
© Claudia Flügel

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis seed development.

Epi-fluorescence microscope, DIC optics.
© Wen Bin Zhou, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Epi-fluorescence microscope, DIC optics.
© Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Arabidopsis seedling with GFP

Spinning disc confocal microscope.
© Arun Sampathkumar, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Tobacco protoplast cells expressing GFP-fused protein. Chloroplasts appear red due to the autofluorescence of chlorophyll.

Confocal microscope.
© Margolzata Ryngajllo, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Culture of Cyanobacteria

Epi-fluorescence microscope.
© Leonhard Krall, Dirk Steinhauser, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Paulinella chromatophora, dividing cell with sausage-shaped plastids

Epi-fluorescence microscope, BF optics.
© Stephanie xxx, Eugenia Maximova

May 15, 2012

Medicago truncatula root, vibratome cross section, stained with acid orange

Epi-fluorescence microscope, M. 200x, Ex. 545 nm.
© Nicole Gaude, Eugenia Maximova

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