Thursday, November 1, 2007

Beauty at the other side



Look at here, this is the stomata of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis which i've done. We can see that the stomata type can be anomocytic or anisocytic.
Both are my second attempt, and i'm still on progress.
According to Shanmukha Rao (1983), the type of stomata should be anisocytic because it is frequently can be found on the abaxial leaf. Different to Siti Zabidah (1993) in her undergraduate project at UKM, showed that the type of stomata for the abaxial leaf are paracytic.
I could think that the differences occured because of the geography. Shanmukha Rao done it in India and Siti Zabidah was done it in Malaysia. The morphology of the plant look similar but not the anatomy. And that is the reason plant anatomy also one of the important field in plant systematic.
















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