Today at Counter Culture Labs
Kat, Patrick and Grier check the plates in the incubator
Every organism has a food they like. We feed the rice calluses by plating the embryos on Callus Induction Media (CIM)
They are masses of cells and with care will eventually grow into rice plants
As they grow we break them apart.
We re-plate the pieces and the pieces grow.
Callus growth is slow and we are working on monitoring how much growth takes place over time.
Every organism thrives in a certain temperature range.
The incubator is set at 25C for the calluses.
The calluses on CIM are kept in the dark.
At later stages different media is used and light is introduced so that photosynthesis can occur and then roots and shoots form.
