3D Neutron Computed Laminography of Maize Plants

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Plant root systems induce biogeochemical patterns in the soil by respiration, water uptake and root exudation that can be measured with in-situ imaging techniques. Slab-shaped rhizoboxes represent the optimum design for 2D optical fluorescence imaging of pH and oxygen dynamics in the rhizosphere as well as measurement of soil water content by neutron radiography. However, quality of standard tomographic (3D) imaging of laterally extended samples suffers from insufficient neutron transmission over a significant angular range. We therefore apply neutron computed laminography (NCL), an adapted tomographic technique especially suited for laterally extended samples, for the first time on plant root systems (Zea Mays) grown in flat, rectangular rhizoboxes (dimensions: 150mm150mm15mm). We successfully obtained the exact position of the roots within the rhizoboxes and could reconstruct and segment the full 3D architecture of the plant root systems. Co-registration of NCL with radiographs and fluorescence images provides a comprehensive insight into root oxygen uptake and rhizosphere pH dynamics of maize. The data is provided as two ZIP archives with TIFF images representing the raw data obtained by 3D neutron computed laminography at the instrument CONRAD-2 as well as the reconstructed dataset of one maize sample.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5442/ND000004
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05120-7
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576715023353
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.17815/jlsrf-2-108
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7010011
Related Identifier IsCollectedBy https://doi.org/10.5442/NI000015
Metadata Access https://data.helmholtz-berlin.de/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:data.helmholtz-berlin.de:datapub/4
Provenance
Creator Rudolph-Mohr, Nicole ORCID logo; Bereswill, Sarah ORCID logo; Tötzke, Christian ORCID logo; Kardjilov, Nikolay ORCID logo; Oswald, Sascha E. ORCID logo
Instrument V7 - Cold Neutron Tomography and Radiography (CONRAD),
Publisher HZB Data Service
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 3.69 GiB
Discipline Other
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-01-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-04-25T00:00:00Z