Abstract
Visualizing the distribution of hormone signaling activity such as auxin and cytokinins is of key importance for understanding regulation of plant development and physiology. Live imaging and genetically encoded hormone biosensors and reporters allow monitoring the spatial and temporal distribution of these phytohormones. Here, we describe how to cultivate live shoot apical meristems after dissection for observation under the confocal microscope for up to 4 days. The shoot apical meristems are maintained on an appropriate medium allowing them to grow and initiate new organs at a frequency similar to plants grown on soil. Meristems expressing hormone biosensors and reporters allows following hormone signaling activity distribution at high spatiotemporal resolution without chemical fixation, an approach that that can also be applied to follow the dynamics of expression in vivo of any fluorescent marker.
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Brunoud, G., Galvan-Ampudia, C.S., Vernoux, T. (2020). Methods to Visualize Auxin and Cytokinin Signaling Activity in the Shoot Apical Meristem. In: Naseem, M., Dandekar, T. (eds) Plant Stem Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2094. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0183-9_9
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