!! This is the archived website of Professor Andrew J. Millar's research group at the University of Edinburgh (to 2017) !! Current work is linked from here: http://www.amillar.org |
Plant rhythms - captured liveThe leaf movement video was taken using the Kujata imaging system over a period of 24 hours in 16 day old Arabidopsis seedlings. Individual images are taken 3 hours apart. Click for a Kujata movie of ... rhythmic hypocotyl elongation (0.5 MB file), similar to Figure 1 of Mandy Dowson-Day's Plant Journal paper, 1999. Hypocotyls elongate in the subjective evening under constant light, and stop elongating in the morning.
Rhythmic CAB:luciferase expression in a young plant (in false colour) - there's another leaf intruding at the top of the picture. Click here for a luciferase movie showing an internally desynchronised tobacco plant under constant light, with its leaves free-running at opposite phases (from Simon Thain's Current Biology paper, 2000). Note - all the video's are sections of primary experimental data, not special "Hollywood" scenes. You are welcome to use them so long as you acknowledge their provenance. Other labs with Arabidopsis movie pages:Rob McClung (leaf movement rhythms)Roger Hangarter (light responses)Jim Haseloff (GFP images) |
Privacy and cookies. All content copyright University of Edinburgh unless otherwise stated. |