Revolutionizing Plant Biology: Exploring X-ray Microscopy for 3D Imaging in Plant Biology and Agricultural Innovation

Join Keith Duncan, Research Scientist and Director of the X-ray Imaging Facility at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, for an exclusive webinar exploring how X-ray microscopy (XRM) is transforming plant biology research. Dive into groundbreaking advancements, insightful case studies, and innovative applications that explore agricultural sustainability. 

Imaging in plant biology is a critical aspect of understanding growth and development, particularly for meristems, grafts, and inflorescence structures that produce economically important products such as grains, seeds, flowers, and fruits. Imaging root-soil-microbe interactions is also valuable but problematic as these events occur underground, and most efforts to visualize this environment necessitate disruption of the very systems we want to study. Capturing detailed 3D image data of intact delicate structures and complicated environments is difficult for conventional microscopy as samples must be very small or thin or both for high resolution imaging. Lab-based X-ray microscopy (XRM) bridges this imaging gap by providing multiscale high-resolution 3D tomographic data where cell-level volumes can be situated within the context of the whole tissue, organ, or plant. Correlative imaging is also significantly enhanced by using XRM scan data of whole resin-embedded samples as a road map to guide subsequent nanometer-scale volume electron microscopy (vEM).

•  Discover why understanding plant biology is critical for advancing global agricultural and environmental solutions.

•  Learn how X-ray microscopy provides a unique platform for high-resolution 3D imaging of intact, complicated plant samples.

•  See a case study investigating root nodules and the fascinating ecosystem services they provide to improve soil health and enhance crop resilience. 

•  Get the latest updates on the ZEISS XRM portfolio, designed to empower plant biology research.

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