The roots of plants are a pain to study because it is ... “By imaging perpendicular to the light sheet plane, we can get a 2D image with one shot,” Yang says. Moving the sample up and down ...

Their method involved cutting through the center of the root to get a clear image of the chemicals inside. "To help understand plant roots from the biology side, we needed to find out which ...

DIRT/3D uses a motorized camera set-up that takes 2,000 images per ... germination in plants. DIRT3D improves the quality of the root characterizations done with DIRT/2D and captures features ...

New research shows a relationship is sprouting between plant roots and soil fungi. This could lead to the elimination of ...

DIRT/3D uses a motorized camera set-up that takes 2,000 images per root from every ... roots that triggers Striga germination in plants. DIRT3D improves the quality of the root characterizations done ...

What’s in a plant? Humans admire them, eat them and rely on them for oxygen release, carbon sequestration, animal habitat and more. But a plant is more than meets the eye. Beneath the soil, its ...

Most plants form symbiotic relationships in their roots with microscopic fungi. These partnerships are known as mycorrhizal symbiosis. Scientists have long known that the exchange of sugar for ...

with shortening of both cell structures and waviness of root hairs. Neuron images courtesy of Dr. Craig Blackstone, NINDS. Arabidopsis images courtesy of Dr. John Schiefelbein, University of ...