April 2 to April 8: Growth and Golgi Bodies

From under the microscope, to the field, to the sky, the Noble Research Institute approaches agricultural research from various angles.

Here's a quick look at a few of those angles from this week. Follow #everyNoblestory on Instagram and Twitter to see the latest updates.

  1 Monday, April 3

Spotting the difference in plant growth from the sky.

Sometime ago, I posted a UAV picture while we did just transplanted. We are now 4-5 months after. It is getting nice from the air. Can spot differences between lines. @noblefoundation #everynoblestory #nobleacademy #medicago #rootresearch #shootresearch #forageimprovement #plantbiology #highereducation #highered #research #greenhouse #science #scienceexperiment #phosphorus #plantstress #abiotic #phenotyping #oklahoma #forage365 #nonprofit #shotoniphone #iphoneonly #lofifilter #scicomm

A post shared by A.-Brice Cazenave, PhD (Off) (@dr.abcazenave) on Apr 2, 2017 at 9:10am PDT

  2 Wednesday, April 5

Fields are in bloom.

😎 🌻🌺🌸💐🌼🌷🌹 @noblefoundation #everynoblestory #nobleacademy #medicago #rootresearch #shootresearch #forageimprovement #plantbiology #highereducation #highered #research #greenhouse #science #scienceexperiment #phosphorus #plantstress #abiotic #phenotyping #oklahoma #forage365 #nonprofit #shotoniphone #iphoneonly #lofifilter #scicomm #flowers #alfalfa

A post shared by A.-Brice Cazenave, PhD (Off) (@dr.abcazenave) on Apr 5, 2017 at 7:01am PDT

  3 Friday, April 7

Cleaning up with a little controlled burn.

Doing some spring cleaning around the farms today. #firetruck #controlledburn #landstewardship #everynoblestory

A post shared by Noble north farms (@noblefoundations_north_farms) on Apr 6, 2017 at 4:26pm PDT

  4 Friday, April 7

Developing grazing-tolerant alfalfa for the Southern Great Plains.

Getting ready to produce some seed. These alfalfa plants have survived one cycle of intensive grazing. Preparing for cycle 2. @noblefoundation developing grazing tolerant alfalfa for the southern Great Plains. #everynoblestory #iphoneography #southernplains #ardmoreok #oklahoma #iphoneonly #alfalfa #grazing #seed #plantscience #plantbreeding #cultivardevelopment #cattlegrazing #plants

A post shared by Mike Trammell (@nobleplantbreeder) on Apr 6, 2017 at 8:32pm PDT

  5 Friday, April 7

Seeing the Golgi apparatus in action.

The Golgi apparatus first identified by the Italian #scientist Camillo Golgi is a major component of the cell's internal system of membranes (aka endomembrane system). Here, #proteins are packaged and sorted prior to their delivery to their correct cellular destination. Shown in this #confocal #microscope #video are #Golgi bodies labeled with the mCherry fluorescent protein in living root cells. Plant cell biology #research by @noblefoundation #scientists aims to understand how plant proteins are sorted and eventually delivered to their correct destination within and outside the cell. They expect that such knowledge will be useful in generating better quality plant products. #cellbiology #timelapse #microscopy #plantbiology #rootresearch #roots #plantcell #plantscience #arabidopsis #celldance #cells #red #celldynamics #biology

A post shared by Noble Cell Imaging (@noble_cell_imaging) on Apr 7, 2017 at 6:35am PDT