LEGO® Bricks as Building Blocks for Centimeter-Scale Biological Environments: The Case of Plants

A Simple and Versatile 2-Dimensional Platform to Study Plant Germination and Growth under Controlled Humidity

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Future Scenarios for Plant Phenotyping

(2013) Fabio Fiorani et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050

(2013) Deepak K. Ray et al.   PLoS One

Pot size matters: a meta-analysis of the effects of rooting volume on plant growth

(2012) Hendrik Poorter et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Cool, or simple and cheap? Why not both?

(2012) George M. Whitesides   LAB ON A CHIP

High-throughput imaging and analysis of root system architecture in Brachypodium distachyon under differential nutrient availability

(2012) P. A. Ingram et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genotypic variation in the ability of wheat roots to penetrate wax layers

(2012) W. R. Whalley et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Transparent Soil for Imaging the Rhizosphere

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Plant-in-chip: Microfluidic system for studying root growth and pathogenic interactions in Arabidopsis

(2011) Archana Parashar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

On the Asymptotic Enumeration of LEGO Structures

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The RootChip: An Integrated Microfluidic Chip for Plant Science

(2011) G. Grossmann et al.   PLANT CELL

The X-factor: visualizing undisturbed root architecture in soils using X-ray computed tomography

(2010) S. R. Tracy et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Chemical stimulation of the Arabidopsis thaliana root using multi-laminar flow on a microfluidic chip

(2010) Matthias Meier et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Hydrogels as extracellular matrix mimics for 3D cell culture

(2009) Mark W. Tibbitt et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Directional Locking and the Role of Irreversible Interactions in Deterministic Hydrodynamics Separations in Microfluidic Devices

(2009) Manuel Balvin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measuring root traits in barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. vulgare and ssp. spontaneum) seedlings using gel chambers, soil sacs and X-ray microtomography

(2008) Caroline E. Hargreaves et al.   PLANT AND SOIL