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Sylvia Rodrigues Silveira
  • Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, 4101 Sherbrooke St E, Montréal, Canada
Confocal Live Imaging of Reproductive Organs Development in Arabidopsis
利用共聚焦活体成像技术观察拟南芥生殖器官的发育
作者:Binghan Wang, Amélie Bauer, Andrea Gómez-Felipe, Sylvia R. Silveira and Daniel Kierzkowski日期:02/05/2025,浏览量:915,Q&A: 0

Understanding how multicellular organisms are shaped requires high-resolution, quantitative data to unravel how biological structures grow and develop over time. In recent years, confocal live imaging has become an essential tool providing insights into developmental dynamics at cellular resolution in plant organs such as leaves or meristems. In the context of flowers, growth tracking has primarily been limited to sepals, the outermost floral organs, or the post-fertilization gynoecium, which are easily accessible for microscopy. Here, we describe a detailed pipeline for the preparation, dissection, and confocal imaging of the development of internal reproductive floral organs of Arabidopsis thaliana including both the stamen and gynoecium. We also discuss how to acquire high-quality images suitable for efficient 2D and 3D segmentation that allow the quantification of cellular dynamics underlying their development.