The CASY Cell Counter is a powerful tool for counting pollen numbers. We identified the first pollen-number controlling gene from Arabidopsis thaliana (model plant) by using CASY.
CASY was really helpful for our study because we needed to count a lot of smaples from different accessions and CRISPR-mutated invidiuals. The advantages of CASY are high-throughput measuring, reliability, and size distinction.
Alhtough pollen grains have a large variation among plant species, we confirmed CASY is able to count pollen grain numbers from a great variety of plant species (for example, Arabdiopsis thaliana, Arabidopsis kamchatica, wheat, Japanese cedar, Torenia fournieri, etc.). The CASY cell counter is a crucial tool for my research.
Dr. Hiroyuki Kakui, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nigata University, Japan