Floral Trichomes in bottle gourd
After the interactive session on Sir Antony Van Leeuwenhoek @ GGDSD College, it was the time of revealing the secrets of nature with the foldscope. I came across the gourd vine growing along the ca...
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Sponge Gourd from my Kitchen Garden
Sponge gourd – Luffa aegyptiaca Sponge Gourd is a fast growing vine that produces yellow flowers and is a popular vegetable of summers and spreads prolifically during monsoon season. The fruits ar...
Read ItBook lice under foldscope
Horse gram seeds got primarily infested with cowpea weevil, after some days there was secondary infection with some kind of very tiny (measuring about 1 to 2 mm or less in length) soft bodied pale...
Read ItIodine stained potato starch granules under foldscope
Some potato cells were scraped and stained with iodine solution. On observing the slide under foldscope some small, clumped and some large, discrete starch grains were viewed. Also it was noticed t...
Read ItParasites of Animals
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Read ItViewing eggs of tamarind pest
Stored tamarind seeds were infected with some kind of internal feeding pest. It was recognized by the white eggs on the seed surface and the round exit holes on seed coat. Fig: Eggs on the surface...
Read ItBeating heart of head lice
[videopress WOwt0VJh] Look at the beating heart of a head louse. Its a tube like transparent structure beating continuously. It pumps blood which is transparent as it lacks haemoglobin.
Read ItOnion cells under foldscope.
Thin epidermis membrane from the layers of onion was pulled out and mounted on glass slide using a drop of water and cover slip, observed under foldscope. A large rectangular interlocked cells with...
Read ItObservation of microstructural morphological changes during germination of Horse gram(Dicot seed) using Foldscope.
Horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum) is considered as underutilized legume and often referred as poor man’s pulse. This legume is cultivated particularly in southern part of India, i.e. Karnataka, An...
Read ItBlue mold on rotting coconut
I bought a green coconut for relishing its water, but landed up throwing in dustbin as blue mold had grown on its top.The coconut had rotten either in storage or due to prevailing rainy weather. To...
Read ItAssembly and Usage of Foldscope Workshop for college studnets
[caption id=”attachment_48381″ align=”alignnone” width=”300″] TS of local garden plants[/caption] [caption id=”attachment_48384″ align=”alignnone” width=”300″] College Teachers and Students busy in...
Read ItA succulent houseplant- Pepromia under foldscope
There is an evergreen, succulent plant – Pepromia growing in a pot in my courtyard. I observed safranin stained transverse sections of the stem to observe its vascular bundles arranged in a ring un...
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