Plants

[Abstract] To investigate the establishment and consequences of host-microbe interactions, it is important to develop controlled infection assays suitable for each system, as well as appropriate methods to evaluate successful infection and its associated effects. Here, we describe a procedure for bacterial inoculation of soybean plants, followed by the ...

[Abstract] Leaf epidermal cell size and number are positively correlated to leaf area. Stomata are specialized epidermal cells vital for gas exchange and water transpiration. So, observation and statistical analysis of the leaf epidermal cells are valuable for the study of leaf development and response to environmental stimulus. The classical method is using ...

[Abstract] Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most important crops in the world. Phakopsora pachyrhizi is a plant pathogenic basidiomycete fungus that infects soybean, causing Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) disease and affecting production. Here, we describe how to prepare the plant material and the uredospore suspension (from spores harvested ...

[Abstract] We developed this protocol to assay the extent of proliferation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea in soybean leaves. This method specifically enables accurate pathogenesis assays of soybean plants at V2/V3 (2^nd/3^rd trifoliate) or higher stages of growth. The leaves of soybean plants at these growth stages ...