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Partners
- Ecole nationale supérieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon)
- Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique (INRIA)
- Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
- Région Languedoc-Roussillon
- Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR)
Further information
Fernandez R. et al., 2010. Imaging plant growth in 4D: Robust tissue reconstruction and lineaging at cell resolution. Nature Methods, 7: 547-553.
Contact
Christophe Godin
Montpellier
Genetic Improvement and Adaptation of Mediterranean and Tropical Plants (UMR AGAP)
Reconstructing meristem growth via cell imaging
06/2011
Two CIRAD teams and their partners have just shown that it is possible to automate the recognition of meristem cells—a group of cells that generate all plant organs—in 3D and to track their division and growth over time using laser microscopy and suitable algorithms.
Two CIRAD teams and their partners have just shown that it is possible to automate the recognition of meristem cells—a group of cells that generate all plant organs—in 3D and to track their division and growth over time using laser microscopy and suitable algorithms. This work, which was carried out as part of a study on plant meristem tissue growth, combined cell imaging and mathematical image processing. It is a substantial advance that will benefit the biology community overall because it overcomes a major stumbling block to the understanding of the development of plant organisms and the role of the cell component in growth and acquisition of the final form of organs. There are many potential applications for this new method, especially for studying how the environment and genetics influence plant development.