SLCU has an AFM, manufactured by JPK Instruments. It permits sensitive mechanical measurements of biological samples down to the subcellular level. It features a BioMat workstation for correlative light-AFM imaging.
SLCU has an AFM, manufactured by JPK Instruments. It permits sensitive mechanical measurements of biological samples down to the subcellular level. It features a BioMat workstation for correlative light-AFM imaging.
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Chris Whitewoods will join the SLCU research leadership team to head a new research group focused on understanding how plants pattern themselves in three dimensions.
New insights could help plants fortify walls against root pathogens
Sep 03, 2020Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) researchers, as part of a multidisciplinary international team, have uncovered a mechanism controlling subtle changes to the architecture of cell walls in plant roots that bolsters their defence against Phytophthora palmivora without negatively affecting plant growth.
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