Plant Cell Biology on DVD is a comprehensive atlas of micrographs illustrating structure-function relationships in plant cells. It offers browsing and information for students, from undergraduates to research level, andis a resource for teachers to use when preparing lectures or tutorials. It supercedes "Plant Cell Biology on CD Part 1", which is no longer available.

The DVD is a major resource of >2000 images and >250 movies in 14 Chapters. The program can be run from the disc or can be installed to the hard drive for faster responses or run on a local area network. Currently it is available for Windows PCs only.

Most forms of biological microscopy are represented. Particular emphasis is given to movie sequences showing live-cell phenomena which few students and teachers can hope to see for themselves. All images have figure legends (opened by mouse click), and many topics are introduced by text essays. The total size is about 2.3 Gb. The link on the sidebar gives further information on the program and the contents.

The user interface has full navigation and progress-monitoring facilities, available on every screen, and includes a built-in slide-show generator with which presentations and classroom exercises can be arranged, pre-recorded, and subsequently displayed using one-click controls.

Plant Cell Biology on DVD is available under two types of Licence Agreement:

Single-User: Australian $100.00. Licensees are entitled to run and install the program on their own personal computers, and to use it to show the contents to others. The DVD is not to be run or installed in Local Area Networks or Multi-User classrooms nor made available for loan in Libraries.

Multi-User: Australian $400.00. Licensees are entitled to Single-User provisions and in addition may run or install the program in Local Area Networks or in Multi-User classrooms and may make it available for loan in Libraries.

Author: Brian E S Gunning, Emeritus Professor Plant Cell Biology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, PO Box 475, ACT 2601, Australia eMail:  gunning@rsbs.anu.edu.au  URL:  http://www.rsbs.anu.edu.au/profiles/Brian_Gunning/

Original footage for 17 of the live cell movies in Plant Cell Biology on DVD has been generously provided by Professor Jeremy Pickett-Heaps of the University of Melbourne. For full information on his many superb movies of processes in living protist, plant and animal cells, visit www.cytographics.com