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Particle-Based Imaging Tools Revealing Water Flows in Maize Nodal Vascular Plexus. / Zubairova, Ulyana S.; Kravtsova, Aleksandra Yu; Romashchenko, Alexander V. et al.
In: Plants, Vol. 11, No. 12, 1533, 01.06.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Particle-Based Imaging Tools Revealing Water Flows in Maize Nodal Vascular Plexus
AU - Zubairova, Ulyana S.
AU - Kravtsova, Aleksandra Yu
AU - Romashchenko, Alexander V.
AU - Pushkareva, Anastasiia A.
AU - Doroshkov, Alexey V.
N1 - Funding Information: Funding: The MRI and LSM studies on plants were funded by Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant number 19-74-10037. The study on water flows in microchannels was funded by RSF grant number 19-79-10217. The APC was equivalently funded by RSF grant number 19-74-10037 and RSF grant number 19-79-10217. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - In plants, water flows are the major driving force behind growth and play a crucial role in the life cycle. To study hydrodynamics, methods based on tracking small particles inside water flows attend a special place. Thanks to these tools, it is possible to obtain information about the dynamics of the spatial distribution of the flux characteristics. In this paper, using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we show that gadolinium chelate, used as an MRI contrast agent, marks the structural characteristics of the xylem bundles of maize stem nodes and internodes. Supplementing MRI data, the high-precision visualization of xylem vessels by laser scanning microscopy was used to reveal the structural and dimensional characteristics of the stem vascular system. In addition, we propose the concept of using prototype “Y-type xylem vascular connection” as a model of the elementary connection of vessels within the vascular system. A Reynolds number could match the microchannel model with the real xylem vessels.
AB - In plants, water flows are the major driving force behind growth and play a crucial role in the life cycle. To study hydrodynamics, methods based on tracking small particles inside water flows attend a special place. Thanks to these tools, it is possible to obtain information about the dynamics of the spatial distribution of the flux characteristics. In this paper, using contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we show that gadolinium chelate, used as an MRI contrast agent, marks the structural characteristics of the xylem bundles of maize stem nodes and internodes. Supplementing MRI data, the high-precision visualization of xylem vessels by laser scanning microscopy was used to reveal the structural and dimensional characteristics of the stem vascular system. In addition, we propose the concept of using prototype “Y-type xylem vascular connection” as a model of the elementary connection of vessels within the vascular system. A Reynolds number could match the microchannel model with the real xylem vessels.
KW - contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging
KW - internodes
KW - lab-on-a-chip
KW - laser scanning microscopy
KW - nodal plexus
KW - Particle Image Velocimetry
KW - plant 3D imaging
KW - systems biology
KW - vascular system
KW - Zea mays L
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131327962&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/plants11121533
DO - 10.3390/plants11121533
M3 - Article
C2 - 35736684
AN - SCOPUS:85131327962
VL - 11
JO - Plants
JF - Plants
SN - 2223-7747
IS - 12
M1 - 1533
ER -
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