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We are in the process of reviewing many excellent applications for research internships. Thanks to references who sent in letters of recommendation! Thanks to all applicants–we will contact you soon. Meanwhile, Jared has returned for a field trip to California, Stuart finished grading final papers, we are preparing for the SER meeting, and our citizen scientists continue clean heads, count achenes, and take random samples for x-raying. Yay team! Photos of the sheets of sticky notes containing achenes (Echinacea fruits) that Will dissected at the U of Minnesota and that Jared will x-ray at the Chicago Botanic Garden this afternoon. Will used freeze-dried pollen to pollinate the flowers that produced these fruits. During the summer styles of those flowers shriveled shortly after Will deposited pollen, providing evidence that the pollen was still alive. More backstory. Do these these achenes contain embryos? We’ll find out this afternoon. Live Science in real time!
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