Geomagnetic Field (Gmf) and Plant Evolution: Investigating the Effects of Gmf Reversal on Arabidopsis thaliana Development and Gene ExpressionCinzia M. Bertea 1, Ravishankar Narayana 1, Chiara Agliassa 1, Christopher T. Rodgers 2, Massimo E. Maffei 1
1Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 2Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital
This protocol describes a method to test the hypothesis that the reversal of the effective geomagnetic field (GMF) induces differential gene expression and alters the morphology of Arabidopsis thaliana. A triaxial octagonal system of Helmholtz coil-pairs was used to artificially generate reversed GMF conditions in the plant growth chamber.
