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A team of scientists led by Texas A&M AgriLife is taking a page from the medical imaging world and using MRI to examine crop roots in a quest to develop crops with stronger and deeper root systems.
The team from Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Harvard Medical School, ABQMR Inc. and Soil Health Institute developed a novel MRI-based root phenotyping system to nondestructively acquire high-resolution images of plant roots growing in soil and established the Texas A&M Roots Lab to further develop this technology as a new tool for assessing crop root traits.
The “Field-Deployable Magnetic Resonance Imaging Rhizotron for Modeling and Enhancing Root Growth and Biogeochemical Function” is a part of the Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration, ROOTS, program funded through U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program.
By Jeff Angelo
May 26, 2021
Infectious disease specialist retired Army Colonel Michael Lewis joins Jeff as the Wuhan lab leak story gets a serious look; automation expert Matt Rosen explains why a robot server may soon greet you at an Iowa restaurant; Senator Joni Ernst moves to prevent Wuhan lab funding by American taxpayers; Dr. Nicole Saphier discusses how politics interfered with science during the pandemic battle.
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