Thursday, September 2, 2010

Kenaf Callus Hoedown

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

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

"Sweet Home Apparatus" - the ultimate Golgi music video

"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.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

laBloomba - dancing flowers to the music of La Bomba

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

Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Fastest Flights in Nature: A Fungal Opera

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

Friday, July 2, 2010

Light capture by Photosystem I

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.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Preparing Animal and Plant Cells Slides

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