Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2018
Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures
Aleklett, Kristin; Kiers, E. Toby; Ohlsson, Pelle; Shimizu, Thomas S.; Caldas, Victor E. A.; Hammer, Edith C.
Abstract
Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats.
Published in
ISME Journal
2018, Volume: 12, number: 2, pages: 312-319
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Soil Science
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.184
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/109135