The star in my crown, or rather the stellate trichome in my root section. White bar = 50 µm.

A star in my roots

Did someone bash me upside the head? I was seeing stars…

Figure 1. A Vibratome (tho not the very one in my lab). The sample is glued onto the stub and the machine brings a razor blade up to it and cuts while vibrating.

Getting maize ready for its close-up

Posting, at last (!) after a few weeks because I wearied of writing about impediments to lab-work. But this past week, I lab-worked. On Monday, I set up maize seed for germination, in the handy rig with the hands. On…

Looking through the window at the pretty cakes

Looking through the window at the pretty cakes

More lab displacement activity

Painting by Harold Newton, of Florida.

Gristlessness

Treading water mainly

Figure 1. Elongation rate verus time for six roots transplanted onto 300 nM oryzalin at time zero. Each root shown in a different color, and each curve is the average of three replicate measurements.

Time course, round 1

Lots of graphs! An experiment that is more than fiddling with the system. Actual data!

Figure 1. Root growth rate vs time for roots that had been inserted into the agar at time zero. Data for each root shown in a given color.

Outlaw of averages

In which irregularity behind an average is unmasked.

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