john.
i have no real knowledge, but might sclerids deter frugivores from
chewing the seeds?
sandra
From: jbohmfalk at hastings.edu ("Bohmfalk, John")
Subject: Sclerid function
Date sent: 28 Sep 2000 20:56:30 +0100
Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
Originally to: "'plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk'" <plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
To: plant-ed at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
> Esteemed and much more knowledgeable colleagues,
>> In botany lab, we did a phloroglucinol staining of pear to visualize the
> sclerids. A student asked a rather impertinent question about the function
> of these stone cells. I have not a clue what their role is. Any hypotheses
> or ideas or known role?
>> Thanks.
> John
>> Dr. John Bohmfalk
> Biology Department
> Hastings College
> Hastings, NE
>jbohmfalk at hastings.edu> (402) 461-7470
>> ____________________
> "Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings called
> laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned. These
> are the temples of the future, temples of well-being and of
> happiness."—Louis Pasteur
>>> Dr. John Bohmfalk
> Biology Department
> Hastings College
> Hastings, NE
>jbohmfalk at hastings.edu> (402) 461-7470
>> ____________________
> "Take interest, I implore you, in those sacred dwellings called
> laboratories. Demand that they be multiplied, that they be adorned. These
> are the temples of the future, temples of well-being and of
> happiness."—Louis Pasteur
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Sandra L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Plant Physiological Ecologist
Middle Tennessee State University
Biology Department PO Box 60
Murfreesboro, TN 31732
Phone: (615) 898-2021
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