TipChip: A modular, MEMS-based platform for experimentation and phenotyping of tip-growing cells

Plant Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1057-1068

  Agudelo, Carlos G ^a   Nezhad, Amir Sanati ^a   Ghanbari, Mahmood ^a   Naghavi, Mahsa ^b   Packirisamy, Muthukumaran ^a   Geitmann, Anja ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemotropism; Microfluidics; Pollen tube; Single cell analysis; Technical advance; Tip growth

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTROPISM; POLLEN TUBE; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL ADVANCES; TIP GROWTH;

BIOSENSORS; CELLS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MEMS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CYTOLOGY;

ALUMINUM; COPPER; GOLD;

AIR; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMOBILIZED CELL; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; SHEAR STRENGTH;

AIR; ALUMINUM; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; COPPER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMINATION; GOLD; HYPHAE; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; POLLEN TUBE; SHEAR STRENGTH;

FUNGI;

EID: 84874931211     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12093     Document Type: Article

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