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Improved Methods for Preparing Transverse Sections and Unrolled Whole Mounts of Maize Leaf Primordia for Fluorescence and Confocal Imaging
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2023
Maize leaf primordia are deeply ensheathed and rolled, making them difficult to study. Here, we present methods for preparing transverse sections and unrolled whole mounts of maize leaf primordia for fluorescence and confocal imaging.
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Experimental Design for Laser Microdissection RNA-Seq: Lessons from an Analysis of Maize Leaf Development
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2017
Many developmentally important genes have cell- or tissue-specific expression patterns. This paper describes LM RNA-seq experiments to identify genes that are differentially expressed at the maize leaf blade-sheath boundary and in lg1-R mutants compared to wild-type. The experimental considerations discussed here apply to transcriptomic analyses of other developmental phenomena.
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Scalable Transfection of Maize Mesophyll Protoplasts
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2023
Here, we present a high-throughput protocol to transiently transfect millions of maize protoplasts for testing large libraries of plasmids in maize mesophyll cells.
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Detached Maize Sheaths for Live-Cell Imaging of Infection by Fungal Foliar Maize Pathogens
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2023
This manuscript details an optimized inoculation protocol that uses detached maize leaf sheaths for reproducible cytological, physiological, and molecular studies of maize interactions with fungal plant pathogens. The leaf sheaths facilitate real-time observation of cellular interactions between the living plant and fungus in unfixed tissues.
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Lateral Root Inducible System in Arabidopsis and Maize
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2016
The Lateral Root Inducible System (LRIS) allows for synchronous induction of lateral roots and is presented for Arabidopsis thaliana and maize.
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The mesophyll provides the cellular setting for capturing light because it contains chloroplast-rich cells. Within this tissue, light energy and carbon dioxide can support photosynthesis, while the surrounding leaf system supplies water and minerals through veins. This arrangement links cellular activity with whole-plant growth, making mesophyll condition important when researchers assess maize productivity.
Veins and stomata contribute different but connected functions. Veins bring water and minerals into the leaf and distribute sugars away from it, whereas stomata control gas exchange and water loss. Studying both structures helps explain how a leaf balances the inputs needed for photosynthesis with the movement of resources to other maize tissues.
Leaf structure connects photosynthetic activity with grain production. When photosynthesis produces sugars, vascular transport provides a route for those products to reach other tissues. Consequently, leaf anatomy can be examined not only as a local feature but also as part of the plant system supporting development and grain production. This connection is central to biology research on crop productivity.
A study can focus on anatomy, photosynthesis, nutrient use, drought responses, or disease development. Researchers may also relate these leaf features and processes to growth, development, and grain production. This broad scope allows a maize leaf investigation to connect cellular and structural biology with whole-plant performance, rather than treating the leaf as an isolated organ.
Maize leaf studies can address both nutrient use and drought responses because the leaf is a site where photosynthetic function and resource transport are examined. Researchers can use this focus to relate leaf structure and function to environmental adaptation and crop performance. This makes the leaf relevant for investigating how biology informs agricultural improvement.
The leaf serves as a biological context for examining disease development in a crop plant. Studying this topic alongside leaf structure and function keeps the investigation connected to broader questions in plant biology, while the importance of maize as a major crop makes the work relevant to agricultural improvement.
Maize is both a major crop and a model for grass biology. Its leaves therefore support research that has significance beyond one plant species, linking leaf anatomy and function with questions about crop productivity, environmental adaptation, and agricultural improvement. This dual role makes maize leaf studies useful in both fundamental biology and applied crop research.