Re: Pollen grain
Posted by
Shalin Mehta on
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I also keep one of the pollen grain slides in the confocal room. When a user
says that there's something wrong with the scope, I ask them if they've checked
will the pollen slide. Since they inevitably haven't, I tell them to do that
first, and then come back if there's a problem with the microscope. Amazingly,
they rarely return.
This is interesting, do pollen's have nice excitation-emission properties? Do they have specific peaks or just broad excitation and emission? What would be the underlying biological organelle/molecule responsible for autofluorescence?
Cheers
Shalin
Kristi DeCourcy