Plant Video Review

Short plant biology videos worth watching...

2010-09-30T17:20:00.001-04:00

A collection of interesting or useful plant biology videos on YouTube (and maybe elsewhere) with brief commentary, assembled by the team at www.ChloroFilms.org - Plant Biology Videos on YouTube. If you know of any plant biology videos that should be featured in this blog, please add them in a comment. Thanks!

Arabidopsis Flower in 3D

2010-09-02T14:58:00.002-04:00

Impressive 3D reconstruction of the flower stalk and single flower of Arabidopsis, using serial sectioning and After Effects. Wow! It's time to learn After Effects...

Kenaf Callus Hoedown

2010-09-02T14:54:00.000-04:00

A stop motion video of the techniques for plant tissue culture. Quirky and cool! A grand prize winner in the ChloroFilms contest.

Pollination Methods: Solanum

2010-09-02T14:28:00.000-04:00

How to make your own crosses of potato and tomato, explained in detail. A ChloroFilms winner.

"Sweet Home Apparatus" - the ultimate Golgi music video

2010-09-02T13:18:00.002-04:00

"Hey there, little lady, how're ya' feelin' tonight?" So begins a sweet and romantic and whimsical song about the Golgi apparatus. Yes, the Golgi apparatus! A winner in Chlorofilms contest #1.

laBloomba - dancing flowers to the music of La Bomba

2010-08-01T10:07:00.000-04:00

You will be rocking to time-lapse footage of flowers opening, dancing. Fun! A 1st prize winner at www.ChloroFilms.org (contest #1).

The Fastest Flights in Nature: A Fungal Opera

2010-07-15T14:01:00.000-04:00

High speed videos of fungi blasting their spores into the air - a microscopic cannon! A 2nd prize winner in Chlorofilms contest #1.

Light capture by Photosystem I

2010-07-02T14:46:00.000-04:00

Shows the workings of the microscopic solar collector used in Photosystem I, the first part of photosynthesis linked to water splitting. Nice animation of light energy bouncing around in the light harvesting complex, until it is captured by the reaction center.

Preparing Animal and Plant Cells Slides

2010-06-02T15:15:00.000-04:00

A clear demo of preparing onion epidermal peel for microscopic examination. I wonder if this would work for many other plant tissues?

VIB Animation: Pioneering Research in Plant Biology

2010-05-02T14:20:00.000-04:00

Slick animation of plant growth, cell division, meristems, lateral roots, auxin transport...gets a bit too technical in some of its references to molecular biology. An advert for VIB.

Development of Cellulosic Biofuels

2010-04-01T15:26:00.000-04:00

Chris Somerville (Director of EBI, UC Berkeley) summarizes the rationale and technical aspects of moving towards second-generation cellulosic biofuels. One-hr lecture/powerpoint. Authoritative and informative.

PSI - Are my soybeans wearing different genes?

2010-03-02T13:13:00.000-05:00

Three Purdue co-eds extract DNA to look for transgenes in their tofu. A 1st prize winner in the ChloroFilms contest #1.

fantastic vesicle traffic

2010-01-18T17:44:00.001-05:00

A short, wonderfully whimsical, and funny video showing vesicle trafficking in plant cells. A slick combination of video microscopy (cellular machinery tagged with GFP, a fluorescent protein, clever animation and good acting. This would be a great video to show in cell biology lectures.

Fertile Eyes: Grand Prize winner in the 1st ChloroFilms contest

2010-01-18T17:05:00.006-05:00

A fresh presentation of sex in plants, using the human body to such creative effect. Visually captivating. You will look at flowers in a new way after seeing this video. The puns are a extra treat. See additional winners of the ChloroFilms context at this link. Must see.

Photosynthetic peep show

2010-01-01T15:47:00.000-05:00

Humorous interviews of MIT grads questioned on the origin of plant mass (wood), followed by a dance of marshmallow peeps simulating carbon dioxide capture and processing into sugars during photosynthesis (Calvin cylce). Won a 2nd prize at www.Chlorofilms.org

Time Lapse Flowers

2009-12-02T15:48:00.002-05:00

Captivating time lapse videos of flowers with music. You won't stop watching this until the end! If you watch on YouTube you will find many suggestions of similar videos. It's a popular topic on YouTube. I like this one the best!

time lapse filming in forest - Shadows of the Sun - BBC

2009-10-02T15:37:00.000-04:00

Forest nature photography from BBC. I like the moss growth and snail ambulation.

Photosystem II

2009-09-02T14:38:00.000-04:00

Animation about the workings of photosystem II, by NDSU Virtual Cell Animations Project. One part of photosynthesis. Informative, perhaps a little dry.

From Flowers to Seeds

2009-06-06T15:22:00.001-04:00

An artistic rendition of the flowering, meiosis, pollination, and seed formation. Striking photography.

FLOWERS IN GROWTH (TIME LAPSE)

2009-02-02T15:30:00.000-05:00

A series of time lapse vids of flowers opening, set to music.

Transposons in plant developmental biology

2008-08-29T17:17:00.005-04:00

This video - evidently produced by a student in Virgina Walbott's lab (Stanford)- is more technical than the ones below, and is aimed at the college level. Narrated powerpoint (mini lecture). Technically simple, a lot of information, but the "video" part is not integral to the story and the voice over is flat.

About 'Wisconsin Fast Plants (Paul Williams tells his story)

2008-08-29T17:11:00.004-04:00

..sandwiched between time-lapse video and a bit of other footage. The sound has glitches, but it tells a simple story.

A cartoon, just for laughs

2008-08-29T15:55:00.001-04:00

Photosynthesis by a group of high schoolers

2008-08-29T15:22:00.001-04:00

Here's a YouTube movie on photosynthesis, produced by a group of high school kids. Click on it to play. Bear with the intro. What do you think? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

A musical rendition of photosynthesis

2008-08-29T15:20:00.003-04:00

A musical rendition of photosynthesis* on YouTube, by a high school teacher (Glenn Wolkenfeld) in Berkeley, CA. Fast-paced - maybe good for review? BTW, there's a second part if you like this one.

Botany without borders

2008-08-29T15:12:00.001-04:00

Polished video, from Karl Niklas (Cornell) & BSA, making the case for plant sciences. This is a 'MUST VIEW'.