BLUE BANANA PICTURE: Glowing Spots Reveal How Cells Die

Thursday, November 26, 2009 - 11:14 in Biology & Nature

Seen under ultraviolet light, a ripening banana's brown spots are each ringed by an eerie blue glow created by dying cells, offering researchers a new way to study how plants live and die, a new study says.

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