Smart soils track the formation of pH gradients across the rhizosphere

D Patko, Q Yang, Y Liu, P Falireas, B Briou, BV Tawade… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Aims Our understanding of the rhizosphere is limited by the lack of techniques for in situ live
microscopy. Current techniques are either destructive or unsuitable for observing chemical …

Transparent soil for imaging the rhizosphere

H Downie, N Holden, W Otten, AJ Spiers, TA Valentine… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Understanding of soil processes is essential for addressing the global issues of food
security, disease transmission and climate change. However, techniques for observing soil …

Spatio-temporal mapping of local soil pH changes induced by roots of lupin and soft-rush

N Rudolph, S Voss, AB Moradi, S Nagl, SE Oswald - Plant and Soil, 2013 - Springer
Aims The rhizosphere is a dynamic system strongly influenced by root activity. Roots modify
the pH of their surrounding soil causing the soil pH to vary as a function of distance from root …

Emerging sensing, imaging, and computational technologies to scale nano-to macroscale rhizosphere dynamics–Review and research perspectives

AH Ahkami, O Qafoku, T Roose, Q Mou, Y Lu… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The soil region influenced by plant roots, ie, the rhizosphere, is one of the most complex
biological habitats on Earth and significantly impacts global carbon flow and transformation …

Transparent soil microcosms allow 3D spatial quantification of soil microbiological processes in vivo

HF Downie, TA Valentine, W Otten… - Plant Signaling & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The recently developed transparent soil consists of particles of Nafion, a polymer with a low
refractive index (RI), which is prepared by milling and chemical treatment for use as a soil …

Quantitative imaging of rhizosphere pH and CO2 dynamics with planar optodes

S Blossfeld, CM Schreiber, G Liebsch, AJ Kuhn… - Annals of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Live imaging methods have become extremely important for
the exploration of biological processes. In particular, non-invasive measurement techniques …

Disentangling who is who during rhizosphere acidification in root interactions: combining fluorescence with optode techniques

M Faget, S Blossfeld, P Gillhaussen, U Schurr… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Plant–soil interactions can strongly influence root growth in plants. There is now increasing
evidence that root–root interactions can also influence root growth, affecting architecture and …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution 3D mapping of rhizosphere glycan patterning using molecular probes in a transparent soil system

CY Jones, I Engelhardt, D Patko, L Dupuy, N Holden… - The Cell Surface, 2021 - Elsevier
Rhizospheres are microecological zones at the interface of roots and soils. Interactions
between bacteria and roots are critical for maintaining plant and soil health but are difficult to …

Light for the dark side of plant life:—Planar optodes visualizing rhizosphere processes

S Blossfeld - Plant and Soil, 2013 - Springer
Background The simple term “rhizosphere” is well defined and has inspired numerous
studies from a broad field of science since the beginning of the 20th century. However, we …

Plant–environment microscopy tracks interactions of Bacillus subtilis with plant roots across the entire rhizosphere

Y Liu, D Patko, I Engelhardt… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of plant–microbe interactions in soil is limited by the difficulty of
observing processes at the microscopic scale throughout plants' large volume of influence …