How to rotate x-axis tick labels in a pandas plot

Pass param rot=0 to rotate the xticklabels:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.style.use('ggplot')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({ 'celltype':["foo","bar","qux","woz"], 's1':[5,9,1,7], 's2':[12,90,13,87]})
df = df[["celltype","s1","s2"]]
df.set_index(["celltype"],inplace=True)
df.plot(kind='bar',alpha=0.75, rot=0)
plt.xlabel("")
plt.show()

yields plot:

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