PlantScope

Plant Microscopy System with Automated Root Tip Tracking

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PlantScope Vertical | Uncovering the Dynamics of Plant Biology

PlantScope Vertical is the ideal turnkey microscopy system for plant research. Live tracking while imaging enables the study of dynamic biological processes such as cell growth, cell division, organ development and organ tropisms. PlantScope Vertical features a lateral microscope stand that preserves microscope functionality and optimizes the optical path for imaging plants in a natural, vertical orientation.

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Spinning Disk Confocal

Live cell 3D confocal imaging up to 200fps with wide field of view 16mm x 17mm
Motorization Including disk exchange, disk bypass, variable aperture, camera port selection and camera port magnification
Options for split-view imaging, NIR imaging, illumination field flattening and super-resolution imaging

Fully Automated Research Microscope

Motorized Vertical Stage

Custom-designed lateral stand retains all standard functionality
Motorized objective and path selection
PSF-optimized objectives

Plants grow in a natural upright position
Motorized X,Y translation

NIR LED and Finder Camera

LaserStack with Fiber Switcher

850nm LED ring light for transmitted light imaging
Finder camera for easy sample location

Modular laser combiner with up to eight lasers
Up to four fiber outputs with millisecond path switching

PlantScope Xero

A configuration with an unconventional, compact microscope body. Its simplified optical path provides maximum light efficiency for plant developmental research without sacrificing optical performance.

PlantScope Marianas

Image vertically-growing plants on the multimodal Marianas inverted microscope system with the addition of a periscope and vertical stage. This configuration allows for ultimate flexibility when imaging a wide range of samples with minimal reconfiguration required.

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Automated Root Tip Tracking

SlideBook’s automated root tip tracking allows you to follow root tips while imaging for hours or even days. Root growth can also be captured as a montage so that at each time point the tip, meristem, elongation and differentiation zones are captured, resulting in complete developmental trajectories.

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Gravitropic experiment of an Arabidopsis root expressing microtubule marker (MAP4-GFP). Courtesy of the Fendrych laboratory, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague.

Natural Growth & Lighting

The vertical stage allows plants to grow upright in their natural orientation, ensuring physiological relevance and authentic developmental processes. Controllable day/night grow light cycles stimulate natural photosynthetic activity, keeping your plants healthy throughout long-term imaging experiments. A near-infrared transmission ring light provides transmission imaging without interfering with the specimen.

4D Spinning Disk Confocal Imaging

At the heart of PlantScope, a spinning disk confocal provides high-resolution, high-speed multicolor imaging with exceptional sensitivity. As a result, the dynamics of cellular development can be seen in real-time and in 3D at sub-cellular resolution. PlantScope also supports a wide range of other imaging modalities including transmitted light, epifluorescence, photomanipulation, laser ablation, TIRF and adaptive optics.

SUB-CELLULAR AND IN 3D
Endosomal GFP-tagged protein. Courtesy of Dr. Michael Sauer, University of Potsdam.

SlideBook Software for Acquisition and Analysis

SlideBook software supports research microscopy through the entire experimental process. By managing everything from instrument control to image processing and data analysis, SlideBook allows scientists to focus on investigation rather than instrumentation. SlideBook controls hundreds of instruments in and around the microscope from dozens of manufacturers enabling researchers to integrate their preferred components and upgrade to the latest devices once available.

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User-Selectable App Appearance

Select a color scheme from dozens of options
Switch on-the-fly from dark to light themes

SlideBook Open File Format

Directory-based open file format for big data and high performance computing applications

Volume Rendering

3D and 4D volume view visualization tools support a user- specified bounding box and a storyboard interface where multiple perspectives can be assembled into a single movie

NVIDIA CUDA GPU Acceleration

GPU acceleration of computationally-intensive operations such as deconvolution

Montage and Multipoint Capture

Streamlined montage and multipoint capture interfaces
Automated montage/stitching with a variety of methods

3D Capture Status

Automated Root Tip Tracking

Volumetric projection during 4D capture supported across all instruments

Automatically follow root tips while imaging
Powered by SlideBook Synergy

Application Data

 
Arabidopsis Root
PlantScope uses tip tracking while acquiring a tiling montage of the entire root, capturing simultaneous dynamics from cell division at the tip to differentiation further up. Courtesy of Nolan Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
 
Barley Shoot Apical Meristem
Courtesy of Dr. Beáta Strejčková Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Olomouc, Czechia
 
Arabidopsis root
Gravitropic experiment of an Arabidopsis root expressing microtubule marker (MAP4-GFP). Courtesy of the Fendrych laboratory, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague.
 
Arabidopsis root
Gravitropic experiment of an Arabidopsis root expressing microtubule marker (MAP4-GFP). Courtesy of the Fendrych laboratory, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague.
 
Apical Meristem – Photostimulation
Sample courtesy of Dr. Carlos Galvan-Ampudia, ENS-Lyon

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