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Low-Cost Microprocessor-Controlled Rotating Stage for Medium-Throughput Time-Lapse Plant Phenotyping

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Plant Hormones

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1497))

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Here we provide the instructions to build a cost-friendly rotating stage, which enables time-lapse phenotyping of seedlings, grown vertically on in vitro plates, in a medium-throughput manner.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Arduino community for setting up this wonderful and easily accessible prototyping platform. We are grateful to David Whittaker for help with the manuscript. This work was supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) (Vienna Research Group), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (P26568-B16; P26591-B16), and the European Research Council (ERC) (Starting Grant 639478-AuxinER).

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Barbez, F., Kleine-Vehn, J., Barbez, E. (2017). Low-Cost Microprocessor-Controlled Rotating Stage for Medium-Throughput Time-Lapse Plant Phenotyping. In: Kleine-Vehn, J., Sauer, M. (eds) Plant Hormones. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1497. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6469-7_5

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