Thanks to Andrew Doust and Toby Kellogg of the UM-StL Department of Biology, for these images as well as for their support for biological users of the facility, including colleages at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Donald P. Danforth Plant Sciences Center. Thanks also to Chet Densmore and Gary Weaver of Boeing in St. Louis for their initiative and care in bringing to our lab the Amray 2000 scanning electron microscope with which these images were taken.
Cenchrus (sand burr), developing flowers

Hordeum (barley), early stage of inflorescence development

Setaria verticillata developing flowers
