The Photography of Ice Formation in Plant Tissue
- 1 April 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of Botany
- Vol. 30 (2) , 199-206
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a084067
Abstract
A procedure is described which enables ice to be photographed as it forms at an exposed cut surface of plant tissue. Epi-illumination with u.v. light is used to excite the fluorescence of substances applied to the cut surface in aqueous solution. The fluorescer is chosen to have a high quantum yield when absorbed on plant cell walls and when trapped in ice crystals. Time lapse photography using this method shows that the first tissue to freeze in a hardy plant is the vascular system.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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