Dear Vijayashankar: A I am so excited ...
1: first for you, this will add some new or deeper insights to your ongoing studies.... but of course you knew that...! 2: I am excited for myself and the whole of eflora family... we will get to see the botanical specimen in further details... as and when you share your finds... ================== B: Now, you will be Vijyashankar micromini .... instead of / in addition to me... the micromini epithet was attached to my name by a few friends and colleagues a couple or three decades ago because I was fond of doing TEM and SEM of tumors etc....and ribosome...and mitochondria... ======== C: and this the question section :-) the first pic is surface of leaf..... i imagine.... but what are 2 and 3rd pictures of ... a fracture of what? is it of a leaf and the rhoboid? structures cell walls... with crystals etc inside? ============== just cant stop smiling.... what a great new dimension to our interaction will this make.... wonderful for all of us... and congratulations for learning the techniques... ushadi ========== ps does this grow in mississipi??? ================= On Jan 10, 12:44 pm, "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Vijayasankar ji, > Wonderly different idea & picture. > > For others: > Scanning Electron Microscopy > (SEM):http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/techniques/... > > A link for Scanning electron > microscope:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope > > On 10 January 2012 05:15, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Dear all > > > Here is yet another b&w picture as 'my flora picture of the year 2011'. > > I am not sure if this is suitable for this title, though. > > > But this is my first ever SEM picture :) It was my dream....finally came > > true! It was a great experience to learn the techniques without a tutor > > (but now I am helping many...). > > The picture shows glandular and non-glandular trichomes from leaf of > > Salvia divinorum, a psychoactive plant endemic to Mexico. > > I recorded 5 types and 33 sub-types of trichomes (some of them are new > > reports), from a single leaf, thanks to SEM... > > > Regards > > > Vijayasankar Raman > > National Center for Natural Products Research > > University of Mississippi > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected])http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & > place-wise):http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also > use them > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google > e-group:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix(more than 1760 members > & > 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia > website:https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/(with a species database > of more than 6000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'.
