Poster of the ImaBio workshop in Angers (19-20 Mach 2026) on the left and microscopy image of a stomata on the right

The #FDFE team (Lina Boutaleb, Norbert Bollier) and Lysiane Brocard (PIV) joined the IMABIO workshop (March 19–20). Discussions focused on imaging strategies for environmental stress, including confocal microscopy 🌱🔬
#PlantScience #Microscopy #PlantImaging
🔗 plantes.microscopie.org/index.php

A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots Apoplastic pH is a key regulator of plant development and environmental responses, influencing processes such as cell expansion, nutrient uptake, and intercellular signaling. Accurate tools for measur...

📜 A workflow for absolute apoplastic pH assessment during live cell imaging in plant roots

🧑‍🔬 @aroessling.bsky.social, Niklas Mayle, @elkebarbez.bsky.social

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantPhysiology #PlantDevelopment

NO more hiding: whole‐plant live imaging of nitric oxide reveals systemic signalling Click on the article title to read more.

📜 NO more hiding: whole-plant live imaging of nitric oxide reveals systemic signalling

🧑‍🔬 John T. Hancock

📔 @newphyt.bsky.social

🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImaging #PlantImmunity #NitricOxide #PlantMicroscopy

CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls - Nature Methods A suite of nontoxic and permeable CarboTag probes in various colors enables live quantitative imaging of a range of plant cell wall characteristics and dynamic, high-resolution mapping of cell wall ch...

📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls

🧑‍🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.

📔 @naturemethods.bsky.social

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantTools #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantMethods

The scanner is on, the plants are ready 🌿🔬

Using the SPCCT scanner, we’re capturing detailed 3D images of their inner structures, non-destructively.

🤝 Partners with @Tridilogy @IFV @CIRAD and #CREATIS-INSA

#VITIMAGE #SMIYC #SPCCT #PlantImaging #3D #Xrays

night vine plants in an IFV greenhouse

Vine plants packed in a car for travel to the imaging laboratory in Lyon, France.

𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 are packed and ready for their trip to Lyon, France! 🍇🚛

Early departure today: I'm heading to the CREATIS-INSA lab to test their cutting-edge 𝐒𝐏𝐂𝐂𝐓 𝟑𝐃 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 — to peek inside their trunks and... uncover hidden secrets ? 👀🌱

#VITIMAGE #SMIYC #SPCCT #PlantImaging #CREATIS #3D #Xrays @IFV

Quantifying Plant Biology with Fluorescent Biosensors | Annual Reviews Plant biology is undergoing a spatial omics revolution, but these approaches are limited to snapshots of a plant's state. Direct, genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors complement the omics a...

📜 Quantifying plant biology with fluorescent biosensors

🧑‍🔬 @botanicaljim.bsky.social, @maxjosse.bsky.social, Bijun Tang, @xanderjones.bsky.social

📔 @annualreviews.bsky.social

🔗 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #Biosensors #PlantSensors

Congrats Tonni and everyone involved! Beautiful work and cool metabolite images!! :)
#microscopy #plantimaging

Atomic force microscopy imaging of plant cell walls A review of advancements in atomic force microscopy imaging of cell wall structure and analysis of the mechanical properties, specific binding sites, and s

📜 Atomic force microscopy imaging of plant cell walls

🧑‍🔬 Junbao Pu, Wenjun Zhang, et al.

📔 @plantphys.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantAFM #AtomicForceMicroscopy #PlantCellWalls

Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) allows to visualize the molecular architecture of pristinely preserved cells and tissues. The workflow of sample preparation for cryo-ET is rather complex; it involv...

📜 Making plant tissue accessible for cryo-electron tomography

🧑‍🔬 Matthias Pöge1, @madic.bsky.social, Wolfgang Baumeister, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #CryoET

At the grass roots: non‐destructive root phenotyping using X‐ray computed tomography Click on the article title to read more.

📜 At the grass roots: non-destructive root phenotyping using X-ray computed tomography

🧑‍🔬 @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

📔 @theplantjournal.bsky.social

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #RootBiology #PlantRoots #PlantImaging

The secreted redox sensor roGFP2-Orp1 reveals oxidative dynamics in the plant apoplast Specific generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is important for signalling and defence in many organisms. In plants, different types of ROS perform useful biological functions in the extracellul...

📜 The secreted redox sensor roGFP2-Orp1 reveals oxidative dynamics in the plant apoplast

🧑‍🔬 Julian Ingelfinger, Stefanie J. Müller-Schüssele, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantPhysiology #PlantImaging #PlantMicroscopy #PlantMethods

🔬We mapped the root meristem cells (the part plant first in contact with the stress), using a newly developed CryoNanoSIMS and looked at the subcellular ion distribution landscape of Na, K, Ca, select other ions under different levels of #saltstress.

#cryonanosims #PlantImaging #ElectronMicroscopy

Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots The development of expansion microscopy in the Arabidopsis root enabled the imaging of molecular targets in tissues at diffraction-unlimited resolution.

📜 Super-resolution expansion microscopy in plant roots

🧑‍🔬 Michelle Gallei, Sven Truckenbrodt, Johann G. Danzl, et al.

📔 @theplantcell.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSuperRes

Imaging the spatial distribution of structurally diverse plant hormones Plant hormones are crucial for plant growth and stress response. This review covers hormone categories and analytical methods, highlighting advances in ima

📜 Imaging the spatial distribution of structurally diverse plant hormones

🧑‍🔬 Lulu Chen, Yue Zhang, Yufen Bu, Xiaodong Wang, Yanping Jing, et al.

📔 @jxbotany.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantImaging

Snapshot of an Arabidopsis leaf tagged with a vacuole marker (orange LUT) with chlorophyll autofluorescence (cyan)

Slightly late to the party, but it's my first ever #Fluorescencefriday submission and maiden BlueSky post :)

Snapshot of a vacuole marker (orange LUT) in an Arabidopsis leaf (cyan: chlorophyll autofluorescence)

#microscopy #leica #plantimaging

Development of bright fluorescent auxin bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

📜 Development of bright fluorescent auxin

🧑‍🔬 Tsuyoshi Aoyama, Yuichiro Tsuchiya, et al.

📔 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #FluorescenceMicroscopy #Phytohormones #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantScience

CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

📜 CarboTag: a modular approach for live and functional imaging of plant cell walls

🧑‍🔬 Maarten Besten, Joris Sprakel, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantCellWalls #PlantImaging #PlantMicroscopy

The AMSlide for noninvasive time‐lapse imaging of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis The <em>Journal of Microscopy</em> is the oldest journal dedicated to the science of microscopy, publishing the latest advances in microscopy techniques and novel areas of application.

📜 The AMSlide for noninvasive time-lapse imaging ofarbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

🧑‍🔬 Jennifer McGaley, Ben Schneider, Uta Paszkowski

📔 Journal of Microscopy

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #PlantSymbiosis #ArbuscularMycorrhiza #AMFungi

SPIRO – the automated Petri plate imaging platform designed by biologists, for biologists PIRO addresses the main bottleneck preventing widespread use of many fantastic custom-made phenotyping platforms: feasibility to replicate the system without access to engineering skills. SPIRO is de....

📜 SPIRO – the automated Petri plate imaging platform designed by biologists, for biologists

🧑‍🔬 Jonas A. Ohlsson, Jia Xuan Leong, Elena A. Minina, et al.

📔 The Plant Journal

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMethods #PlantImaging

Label-free structural imaging of plant roots and microbes using third- harmonic generation microscopy bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

📜 Label-free structural imaging of plant roots using three-photon autofluorescence and third-harmonic generation microscopy

🧑‍🔬 Daisong Pan, Jose A. Rivera, Na Ji, et al.

📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social

🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #PlantImaging #RootBiology

Here's a real #Treat for your #Halloween! 👻 The #AppsPlantSci Special Issue on Advances in #PlantImaging is online!! Check it out: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450.... You'll be glad you did. 🎃
#Botany #IAmABotanist #SocietyJournal