Plant Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal for the plant research community that encompasses all aspects of technological innovation in the plant sciences.
Editor-in-Chief
- Brian G Forde, Lancaster University
Articles
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Plant Methods 2013, 9:14Better grafting in Arabidopsis
Grafting is an extremely important technique for the study of long distance signalling in plants. The authors describe substantial improvements to existing methodologies that both increase the success rate and the throughput of hypocotyl grafting in Arabidopsis.
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Plant Methods 2013, 9:4Hydroponics: a step-by-step guide for plant researchers
Hydroponics is an extremely useful technique for growing plants under controlled nutrient conditions, particularly where clean roots are needed for physiological or microscopic analysis or for RNA extraction. The detailed protocol set out here should make it straightforward for other laboratories to rapidly and successfully adopt the technique. A video is also available at http://t.co/WoAYgYy84C.
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Plant Methods 2012, 8:49Callose imaging software
The authors present a detailed series of image analysis tools for the detection and measurement in plant tissues of callose deposition, an important defence against fungal pathogens. The software should be very useful for researchers interested in quantifying callose-mediated defences against plant pathogens. In addition, automated analysis of the progress of callose development over time can be used to track fungal development within the leaf.
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Editor's profile
Brian G. Forde is currently Professor of Environmental Plant Biotechnology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, in the UK.
“Technological innovation is probably the most important catalyst for progress in any scientific discipline. When we launched Plant Methods in 2005 our aim was to provide a high-profile, Open Access platform to stimulate the development and dissemination of new and improved techniques and research tools in plant biology. Just seven years later we have published over 200 papers describing new techniques or resources of value to the plant science community and our Thomson Reuters Impact Factor of 2.83 puts us amongst the top 20% of plant journals”
Brian G. Forde
Editor-in-Chief
Video Highlight
Hydroponics: a step-by-step guide for plant researchers
Plant Methods 2013, 9:4
Image Highlight
Example uses of Cell-o-Tape, which semi-automates the measurement and counting of cells and can estimate the locations of feature points.
Plant Methods 2012, 8:7
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