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Featured image with Emily Oren

Posted by , on 10 April 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Emily Oren, shows the surface stiffness of an Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl. It was acquired using a Bruker Biowizard 5 Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and is of plasmolysed epidermal cells on a live seedling.
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New webinar series on plant imaging

Posted by , on 30 March 2026

To build on the momentum of our recent Workshop, Macro to micro: quantitative plant imaging across scales, we are launching a new webinar series together with Workshop organisers Alex Johnson (University of Exeter) and Joe McKenna (Warwick University). We’ll be hosting quarterly webinars allowing researchers from all career stages to showcase their research on plant
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Featured image with Nat Prunet

Posted by , on 27 March 2026

Our featured image from Nat Prunet is a composite image of pollen grains from various plant species. Each pollen grain was imaged separately for red autofluorescence with super-resolution Airyscan on a Zeiss LSM 980 microscope. 3D datasets were processed on Fiji with edge-finding and color-coding for depth.
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Featured image with Julia Zheku

Posted by , on 13 March 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Julia Zheku, depicts a maize (corn) cross section, with a developing nodal root dynamically breaking through the basal stem node which is typically found below the soil surface. Such a root is not visible while sectioning, making this a beautiful, yet lucky, image. The section was prepared by mounting the
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Microscopy preprints - applications in biology

Posted by , on 9 March 2026

Here is a curated selection of preprints published recently. In this post, we share preprints that use microscopy tools to answer questions in biology.
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Featured image with Ioannis Theodorou

Posted by , on 27 February 2026

Our featured image, from Ioannis Theodorou, was acquired with Leica Stellaris 8 and the TauSeparation mode. It is the TauContrast channel and it shows the average fluorophore lifetime per pixel. The image was processed on Las X and inkscape. The region shown comes from compressed wood tissue.
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Featured image with Jan Martinek

Posted by , on 13 February 2026

Our featured image is a spinning disk fluorescence micrograph, acquired by Jan Martinek, showing an Arabidopsis thaliana root that formed a spiral on a forgotten Petri dish lying flat on the bench. In this orientation, the root cannot grow downward gravitropically, so it keeps turning.
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Featured image with Denise Scuffi

Posted by , on 30 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Denise Scuffi, shows stomata – small pores surrounded by a pair of specialised cells known as guard cells – from Arabidopsis thaliana expressing the fluorescent biosensor roGFP2-Orp1 in the cytosol, which enables in vivo monitoring of intracellular H₂O₂ dynamics.
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Featured image with Ivan Radin

Posted by , on 16 January 2026

Our featured image, acquired by Ivan Radin, shows a few epidermal cells of tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) leaf, expressing cytosolic GFP. There is a significant variability in expression levels between cells. The brightest region is the nucleus, which is surrounded by a large central vacuole.  The cytosol is restricted to the cell periphery. Transvacuolar strands connect
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Featured image with Lea Berg

Posted by , on 4 July 2025

Our featured image, acquired by Lea Berg and Michael Rassig, shows mature epidermal cell types in a grass leaf of the emerging developmental model system Brachypodium distachyon. Cell outlines are blue, which is plant cell wall UV-autofluorescence. In yellow is stained lignin, a secondary cell wall modification that can be found in the hair cells (shark-tooth-shaped)
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