Agricultural Research Organization (Volcani center)

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Bioengineering

Biomimetic Replication of Root Surface Microstructure using Alteration of Soft Lithography

Pallavi Kumari¹, Tali Sayas¹, Maya Kleiman^1,2

¹Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization (Volcani Center), ²Agro-NanoTechnology and Advanced Materials Center, Agricultural Research Organization (Volcani Center)

Biomimetics has been previously used as a tool to study leaf-microorganism interactions. However, no such tool exists for roots. Here, we develop a protocol to form synthetic surfaces mimicking root surface microstructure for the study of root-environment interactions.