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Hi Jiawen, thanks for starting this discussion! I know one of the biggest challenges in tackling plant awareness disparity is getting people to recognize how widespread plant products are (lots of younger kids for example will not realize that bread, pasta, sugar etc are all processed forms of plants) and I think your iodine staining game is the perfect way to demonstrate that!
My area of research in plant programmed cell death and so one of the best sci-comm methods we have is to use plant species like monstera deliciosa (swiss cheese plant) that show these processes on a macro-level. It helps that they also look cool, and nowadays plenty of people have them at home and may have wondered how they form their cool patterns. The SEM images are also a great tool, especially if you can adequately explain to people just how tiny the structures they’re looking at are.