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Celery Stain Not in Leaves

1/23/2004


name         Connie A.
status       educator
age          40s

Question -   When staining celery with food coloring to demonstrate xylem and vascular bundles, 
we noticed that there were veins in the leaf that were unstained. Are some leaf veins primarily 
phloem and that is why the food coloring did not show up there?
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Possibly helpful:
http://www.ns.purchase.edu/biology/bio1560lab/stems.htm
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_130/Anatomy/Cells_tissues/New_l ab.html
http://www.rit.edu/~gtfsbi/genbiol/Lab%202.htm

Anthony Brach, Ph.D
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