Live-Cell Imaging of Microtubules and Microtubule-Associated Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana - Methods in Cell Biology - page 236

CONCLUDING COMMENTS
Plants are valuable members of our global ecosystem and many scientists are ac-
tively working to understand the biology of these important organisms. Microtubules
and MAPs are the subject of much research because they play important roles in plant
growth and development. The ability to observe proteins tagged with fluorescent
proteins in intact living plants with confocal microscopes has helped the field
progress tremendously. The guidelines here describe how to generate and image
A. thaliana plants expressing fluorescent fusion proteins.
Acknowledgment
I am grateful for support from Drs Michelle Bezanson and Claire Walczak.
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