Micro Cryo Color
Colored SEM's (Scanning Electron Microscopy) - Adriaan van Aelst, colour Robin Noorda
Adriaan van Aelst worked at Wageningen University as head of the WEMC department (Wageningen Electron Microscopy Centre) and has been taking photographs of a large collection of plant preparations in 'cryo' conditions, i.e. temperatures below -180°C, using an Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Plants and plant parts are very rich in water and owe their form mainly to the presence of water. Normal SEM photographs are made of dried samples with a damped coating of metal and therefor loose their original form. With the aid of the 'cryo' technique, the preparations are able to retain their natural form, even on a nanometre scale. All SEM photographs are originally black and white, but often colour is added to emphasise different parts.
Several attractive plant structures were selected for the Tropistic 'Photosynthesis' exhibition, which Robin Noorda enlarged using fractal geometry and subsequently colored.
Top: sprouting tomato plant
row 1 left: Arabidopsis WT cotillon, row 1 right: Chamaerops humilis pollen with conidiospores
row 2 left: Clivia pollen, row 2 right: Tomato plant
row 3 left: Oat leaf, row 3 right: Clivia pollen
row 4 left: Schizophyllum commune, row 3 right: Epidermis Tomato plant
row 5 left: Maize stomata, row 4 right: Clivia pollen
row 6 left: Clivia pollen rehydrated, row 5 right: Olive leaf
row 7 left: Tomato stomata, row 6 right: Arabidopsis adaxial site leaf
Colored SEM's (Scanning Electron Microscopy) - Adriaan van Aelst, colour Robin Noorda
Adriaan van Aelst worked at Wageningen University as head of the WEMC department (Wageningen Electron Microscopy Centre) and has been taking photographs of a large collection of plant preparations in 'cryo' conditions, i.e. temperatures below -180°C, using an Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Plants and plant parts are very rich in water and owe their form mainly to the presence of water. Normal SEM photographs are made of dried samples with a damped coating of metal and therefor loose their original form. With the aid of the 'cryo' technique, the preparations are able to retain their natural form, even on a nanometre scale. All SEM photographs are originally black and white, but often colour is added to emphasise different parts.
Several attractive plant structures were selected for the Tropistic 'Photosynthesis' exhibition, which Robin Noorda enlarged using fractal geometry and subsequently colored.
Top: sprouting tomato plant
row 1 left: Arabidopsis WT cotillon, row 1 right: Chamaerops humilis pollen with conidiospores
row 2 left: Clivia pollen, row 2 right: Tomato plant
row 3 left: Oat leaf, row 3 right: Clivia pollen
row 4 left: Schizophyllum commune, row 3 right: Epidermis Tomato plant
row 5 left: Maize stomata, row 4 right: Clivia pollen
row 6 left: Clivia pollen rehydrated, row 5 right: Olive leaf
row 7 left: Tomato stomata, row 6 right: Arabidopsis adaxial site leaf
