Data from: The rhizodynamics robot: Automated imaging system for studying long-term dynamic root growth

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The study of plant root growth in real time has been difficult to achieve in an automated, high-throughput, and systematic fashion. Dynamic imaging of plant roots is important in order to discover novel root growth behaviors and to deepen our understanding of how roots interact with their environments. We designed and implemented the Generating Rhizodynamic Observations Over Time (GROOT) robot, an automated, high-throughput imaging system that enables time-lapse imaging of 90 containers of plants and their roots growing in a clear gel medium over the duration of weeks to months. The system uses low-cost, widely available materials. As a proof of concept, we employed GROOT to collect images of orchid root growth of multiple species over six months. Beyond imaging plant roots, our system is highly customizable and can be used to collect time-lapse image data of different container sizes and configurations regardless of what is being imaged, making it applicable to many fields that require longitudinal time-lapse recording. ... [Read More]

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Taylor, I., Mijar, A. & Benfey, P. (2023). Data from: The rhizodynamics robot: Automated imaging system for studying long-term dynamic root growth. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r4ng4t965

Creator: Mijar, Anupam
Taylor, Isaiah
Benfey, Philip
DOI: 10.7924/r4ng4t965
Subject: Botany
Publication Date: February 28, 2023
ARK: ark:/87924/r4ng4t965
Affiliation: Biology
Publisher: Duke Research Data Repository
Type: Dataset
Format: H5
Related Materials: Rajanala, A., Taylor, I. W., McCaskey, E., Pierce, C., Ligon, J., Aydin, E., Hunner, C., Carmichael, A., Eserman, L., Coffee, E. E. D., Mijar, A., Shah, M., Benfey, P. N., & Goldman, D. I. (2023). The rhizodynamics robot: Automated imaging system for studying long-term dynamic root growth. PloS one, 18(12), e0295823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295823
Contact: Isaiah Taylor, iwtwb8@gmail.com, 573-823-2358, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6535-8658
License: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal
Title: Data from: The rhizodynamics robot: Automated imaging system for studying long-term dynamic root growth
License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Repository: Duke Research Data Repository

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