Laser ablation tomography for visualization of root colonization by edaphic organisms

• Published in: Journal of experimental botany Vol. 70; no. 19; pp. 5327 - 5342
• Main Authors: Strock, Christopher F., Schneider, Hannah M., Galindo-Castañeda, Tania, Hall, Benjamin T., Van Gansbeke, Bart, Mather, Diane E., Roth, Mitchell G., Chilvers, Martin I., Guo, Xiangrong, Brown, Kathleen, Lynch, Jonathan P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: UK Oxford University Press 15.10.2019
• Subjects: barley; beans; cereal cyst nematode; corn; cyst nematodes; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera; Fusarium; mycorrhizae; Nematoda; Plant—Environment Interactions; qualitative analysis; Research Papers; root anatomy; root phenotyping; soil biota; tomography; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; western corn rootworm; root phenotyping; western corn rootworm; mycorrhizae; Cereal cyst nematode; root anatomy; Fusarium

Soil biota have important effects on crop productivity, but can be difficult to study in situ. Laser ablation tomography (LAT) is a novel method that allows for rapid, three-dimensional quantitative and qualitative analysis of root anatomy, providing new opportunities to investigate interactions bet...