Mung beans like you’ve never seen them before

As part of her project called Grow, Erica Seccombe has captured the transformation of seeds as they germinate, from embryo to first leaf stage. But unlike conventional time-lapse photography, you can actually see what’s happening inside the beans as well as outside.

Ms Seccombe created these ‘virtual sprouts’ using state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning and data visualisation technology at the Australian National University.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Mung beans like you’ve never seen them before

As part of her project called Grow, Erica Seccombe has captured the transformation of seeds as they germinate, from embryo to first leaf stage. But unlike conventional time-lapse photography, you can actually see what’s happening inside the beans as well as outside.

Ms Seccombe created these ‘virtual sprouts’ using state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning and data visualisation technology at the Australian National University.

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Nice. The bubble growing inside is probably the food store being used up by the newly germinating plant. I’ve occasionally wondered why the size of the seed hardly changes as it sprouts its first root. Conservation of mass concerns. Now we know, the seed changes inside by going hollow.