A Versatile Method for Mounting Arabidopsis Leaves for Intravital Time-lapse ImagingShigeyuki Betsuyaku 1,2,3,4, Nobuhiko Nomura 3,4, Hiroo Fukuda 2
1Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO, 2Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 3Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 4Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability, University of Tsukuba
We report a simple and versatile method for performing fluorescent live-imaging of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves over an extended period of time. We use a transgenic Arabidopsis plant expressing a fluorescent reporter gene under the control of an immunity-related promoter as an example for gaining spatiotemporal understanding of plant immune responses.