Morphology of W. australiana by Anatomical Lens
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Wolffia is the aquatic, the simplest and the smallest angiosperm in the world. The body of Wolffia consists of only one leaf and a few buds wrapped by the leaf (picture 1-2). Under normal conditions, Wolffia is doing vegetative growth without sexual reproduction. In our lab environment, many chemical reagents could induce W. australiana flowering (EDTA, GA3, SA, 6-BA). The 6-BA is the best one (picture3) . One mall hole was shown in the "deck" of the boat-like leaf (picture 4), it was the first sign of flowering, then one stamen and one gynoecium reached out (picture 5-6). Also, there was a bubble covering the stigma at an early stage, and it would exploded later (picture 7-8). Gynoecium had grown as big as whole plantlet at late stage (picture 9-10), however, we have not got seed yet.
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Morphology of W. australiana by Scanning Electron Microscope(SEM)
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Morphology of W. australiana by Transmission Electron Microscope(TEM)
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Morphology of W. australiana by MicroCT
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MicroCT is a good method to analyze the morphology of W. australiana by. all the videos of the W. australiana by are shown here, and We classified all videos according to whether pistils and stamens or branches were observed.
The pictures of the fig 1 in ‘The Plant-on-Chip: a new horizon to the hidden core of plant morphogenesis’ were from these videos. Specifically, fig.1I-M were from video 34, fig.1N-P were from video 4, fig.11 were from video 2, the video number are simply counted from top to bottom, from left to right.
Flowering | With Branch | Video |
Y | Y | | Y | N | | N | Y | |
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