{"id":3999,"date":"2017-06-07T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"3999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3999","title":{"rendered":"Which camera or microscope do I need to look at plant stomata, or to do stomatal counts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people use a traditional compound microscope at 400x to see individual stomata on plant leaves. It is possible to see stomata as small white dots on the underside of a leaf at magnifications from 50-100x, but you will not be able to do real stomatal counts, or see individual stomata.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to take pictures of plant stomata we recommend the <a href=\"\/product\/celestron-digital-microscope-imagers\/\">Celestron Digital Microscope Imagers<\/a> (<nobr>CS-DMI<\/nobr>) or the <a href=\"\/product\/proscope-5mp-microscope-camera\/\">ProScope 5MP Microscope Camera<\/a> (<nobr>BD-PS-MC5UW<\/nobr>). But you will also need a traditional compound microscope.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to see fields of stomata on the underside of a leaf using the <a href=\"\/product\/usb-digital-microscope\/\">USB Digital Microscope<\/a> (<nobr>BD-EDU-100<\/nobr>), but you will not be able to do stomatal counts and you will not be able to see the structure of each stomata.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people use a traditional compound microscope at 400x to see individual stomata on plant leaves. It is possible to see stomata as small white&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3009,2538,3070,6728],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-camera","tag-microscope","tag-plant","tag-stomata"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}