Time-resolved chemical monitoring of whole plant roots with printed electrochemical sensors and machine learning
Creators
- 1. Imperial Coll London, Royal Sch Mines, Dept Bioengn, London SW7 2AZ, England
- 2. Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Ctr Plant Stress Biol, CAS Ctr Excellence Mol Plant Sci, Shanghai 200032, Peoples R China
Description
Traditional single-point measurements fail to capture dynamic chemical responses of plants, which are complex, nonequilibrium biological systems. We report TETRIS (time-resolved electrochemical technology for plant root environment in situ chemical sensing), a real-time chemical phenotyping system for continuously monitoring chemical signals in the often-neglected plant root environment. TETRIS consisted of low-cost, highly scalable screen-printed electrochemical sensors for monitoring concentrations of salt, pH, and H2O2 in the root environment of whole plants, where multiplexing allowed for parallel sensing operation. TETRIS was used to measure ion uptake in tomato, kale, and rice and detected differences between nutrient and heavy metal ion uptake. Modulation of ion uptake with ion channel blocker LaCl3 was monitored by TETRIS and machine learning used to predict ion uptake. TETRIS has the potential to overcome the urgent "bottleneck" in high-throughput screening in producing high-yielding plant varieties with improved resistance against stress.
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