Microfluidic chips provide visual access to in situ soil ecology

Mafla-Endara et al. incubate a microfluidic chip with and directly in soil in order to examine interactions between microbial communities and the pore space microstructures. This work shows the spatiotemporal changes of soil microhabitats and demonstrates that fungal hyphae increase the dispersal ra...

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Main Authors: Paola Micaela Mafla-Endara, Carlos Arellano-Caicedo, Kristin Aleklett, Milda Pucetaite, Pelle Ohlsson, Edith C. Hammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02379-5