植物微流控芯片是一种在植物科学研究领域日益重要的工具,其应用范围涉及植物生长、植物生理学、植物逆境应对等多个方面。
这些芯片利用微流体技术,通过微小通道和微反应室对植物进行精细控制和分析,为研究植物的生长发育、代谢过程以及植物对环境变化的响应提供了新的途径。
以下是植物微流控芯片的概述,包括其原理、应用、优势以及在植物科学研究中的潜在贡献。
植物微流控芯片的原理基于微流体学和植物生理学的结合。微流体学是一门研究微小液滴、微通道和微反应室中流体行为的学科,而植物生理学关注植物的生长、发育、代谢等生理过程。
植物微流控芯片通常包含微小通道、微反应室和微阀等结构,通过精确控制液体的流动和混合,实现对植物生理活动的精细操控。
Plant microfluidic chips can simulate the growth of plant roots under different conditions by providing precise nutrient solutions through microchannels, controlling water and nutrient supply to study the root development of plants in various environmental conditions.
Through plant microfluidic chips, online monitoring and collection of plant metabolic products can be achieved. This helps study the regulatory mechanisms of plant metabolic pathways under stress conditions, providing theoretical support for improving crop quality and adaptability.
Plant microfluidic chips can simulate different stress conditions such as drought and salinity stress, studying plant responses to these stresses. Precise control in microchannels enhances the understanding of plant responses to environmental stress.
Plant microfluidic chips enable highly precise manipulation of plants by designing microchannels and microreactors, providing accurate growth environments and nutrient supplies.
Combining plant microfluidic chips with online monitoring technology allows real-time monitoring and collection of plant physiological activities and metabolic products, providing more accurate data for research.
Due to the high integration of microfluidic chips, multiple plants can be simultaneously subjected to different treatments, achieving high-throughput plant research and improving experimental efficiency.
Through fine manipulation of plant growth processes with microfluidic chips, a better understanding of plant growth regulatory networks can be achieved. This helps identify key growth regulatory factors and signaling pathways, providing theoretical support for breeding crops with higher adaptability and yield.
Plant microfluidic chips, when simulating stress conditions, allow in-depth studies of the molecular mechanisms of plant stress responses. This helps reveal the biological responses of plants to different stress conditions, guiding the theoretical development of stress-resistant plant varieties.
The high throughput and integration of plant microfluidic chips make them powerful tools for innovating agricultural production models. Conducting large-scale plant studies on the chip supports precision agriculture, intelligent greenhouses, and other modern agricultural technologies, improving the efficiency and quality of agricultural production.
Microfluidic chips have gradually been introduced into plant cell research, playing a unique role. Summarily, the applications of microfluidic chips in plant cell biology can be categorized into six main types: research on plant roots, research on pollen tubes, research on the toxicity of pollutants to plants, research on plant protoplasts, biomechanical research on cell walls, and other miscellaneous studies
Plant Microfluidic Chip Types, | Applications | Advantages Compared to Traditional Methods |
Root Chip | Monitors the concentration of free metal ions and changes in phenotypic information during root metabolism | Offers long-term real-time monitoring and high-throughput quantitative analysis |
Root Array Chip | Monitors the dynamic gene expression over time and space. | Enables real-time observation of gene expression, and an automated imaging system can reshape the root's structure |
Apical Growth Chip | High-throughput detection of chemical and biological stimuli affecting pollen tube growth | Provides the same growth conditions for a series of independent individual pollen tubes |
Pollen Tube Array Chip | Captures long-term, high-resolution images of pollen tubes | Restricts pollen tubes to a fixed focal plane for precise microscopic observation. |
Toxicity Detection Chip | Uses cell sensing to detect pollutants in the environment. | Offers higher accuracy and can monitor secondary variation frequency under chemical treatment conditions. |
Bending Chip | Quantitatively monitors the mechanical properties of pollen tube cell walls. | Allows direct bending manipulation of pollen tubes. |
Directional Memory Chip | tudies the presence of internal memory in different plant cells | Provides an ideal subcellular-level microenvironment for systematically examining plant cells |
Cell Division Research Chip | Long-term monitoring of plant cell division within a small range of injuries | Requires less culture medium volume, fewer cells, and optimal nutrient supply. |
Electrofusion Chip | Electrofusion of plant protoplasts for gene transfer research | Allows single-cell level manipulation of cells. |
Chemical Stimulation Chip | In vitro monitoring of changes in the direction of pollen tube growth upon specific chemical stimulation. | Rapidly stabilizes changes in the growth direction of pollen tubes around the growing pollen tube, with subcellular-level resolution. |
The plant root chip is an innovative technology used for studying the growth and interactions of plant roots. This root chip, employing microfluidic systems and precise design, simulates the complex growth environment of plant roots in soil, providing an experimental platform for real-time monitoring of root growth, morphological changes, and responses to external stimuli. What sets the plant root chip apart is its ability to allow researchers to observe the dynamic behavior of plant roots with high temporal and spatial resolution, providing insights into plant growth mechanisms and environmental adaptability. This technology holds significant promise in the field of agriculture, facilitating research on plant responses to stress, optimization of cultivation conditions, and screening for stress-resistant varieties, thereby offering a powerful tool for both agricultural production and botanical studies
Product Code | Outline (mm) | Height (um) | Thickness (mm) | Chip material | Price (CNY) |
I0001 | 60*20 | 160um | 4+1 | PDMS+Glass | 400 |
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