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Latest News: Nematode Life Cycle Research Platform
As an example of the broad applicability of our plant root growth and imaging system, we are developing protocols, imaging techniques, and analysis methods for an integrated research platform aimed at understanding the relationships between plant-parasitic nematodes and their host plants.
This work is supported by The USDA SBIR program, Cotton, Incorporated, and Tennessee Technology Development Corporation.
Our collaborators in this work are Dr. Ernest C. Bernard and Dr. Bonnie H. Ownley of the Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and
Dr. Judy A. Thies of the USDA ARS Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC.
The below images show Root-knot Nematode feeding site development on a Sunflower root system. The time span is week 1 through week 4 after inoculation.
Contact us for further information.
Our Brochures
If you did not get our brochures at PAG or CSSA, they are below:
RootViz FS – Plant Growth Substrate and Containers for Non-destructive Imaging
Destructive and Non-destructive Plant Root Imaging Services
RootViz FS – Viewing and Analysis Station
RootViz FS – Plant Root Visualization and Characterization System
TriFold Brochure front
TriFold Brochure back
Contact us to receive a pair of Anaglyphic (red/cyan) glasses to view our stereo images.
Growth Protocols
Several visitors at PAG and CSSA indicated an interest in our growth protocols using expanded polystyrene (EPS) beads as a growth substrate. If you are interested in having complete control of your rhizosphere environment please consider using our expanded polystyrene bead growth substrate. Put in what you want, leave out what you don't want. Get clean tissue samples, exudate samples, and an easy to wash root system.
Grow Room Protocols
Grow Room Parts List
Protocol for establishing Rice
The beads that we use as a plant growth substrate are available from Alliance Foam Technologies. We use their T180F 1.5PCF pre-expanded EPS beads.
Remove the barrier of having to make inferential determinations of root development.
Seeing is believing.
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