[Plant-education] Re: How to stain plant sections with toluidine blue

[timber271 from yahoo.com]

There have been several discussions in this newsgroup about toluidine
blue. They can be found at the following link:

http://groups.google.com/group/bionet.plants.education/search?hl=en&group=bionet.plants.education&q=toluidine+blue&qt_g=Search+this+group

A google search will provide many other sources, such as the
following:

BIOL2053:  Hand sectioning and staining of sections
http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/FPAS/bcs/courses/Biology/BIOL2053/2053proj/biol2053sect.htm

Creating Free Hand Sections of Plant Specimens
http://dbs.umt.edu/courses/biol316/freehand.htm

Lux A., Morita S., Abe J. and Ito K. 2005. An improved method for
clearing and staining free-hand sections and whole-mount samples. Ann
Bot (Lond).  96(6):989-96.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/6/989