Interactive Plant Anatomy
Click any link below to open a light-microscope image of a section of a plant part.
Move the pointer over the image to read the names of the tissues.
Zoom in or out with the mouse wheel and drag the image with one of the mouse buttons down.
Stem Cross Sections
Leaf Cross Sections
Root Cross Sections
Other Plant Parts
About
In recent decades instruction in the field of plant anatomy has been reduced due to several reasons, the main ones being, high costs of maintaining the physical infrastructure (microscopes, and preparation equipment and materials), and the need to train and employ teaching assistants. However, since the lack of extensive laboratory activity as part of students’ academic training is objected by botany teachers, alternative teaching modes using modern digitizing techniques were developed. Digital images collections and anatomy databases are gaining popularity as teaching aids, virtual museums and libraries of structural information. Here we present an online Interactive Plant Anatomy image database intended to serve as an on-line teaching tool, student supplementary resource, enrichment material, and preparation tool for laboratory sessions.
This Interactive Plant Anatomy database was developed by:
Amram Eshel, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel-Aviv University, and
Ilana Shtein, Ariel University.
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If you want to add images of your own to this database, to be presented in the same interactive form, please send them to amrame@tauex.tau.ac.il
Please send with them a list of tissues you want to be labelled in each image, and a statement saying that you own the copyrights of those images and you allow us to present them in this freely open Internet database.
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