Plants have a remarkable ability to regenerate vascular tissue after damage or wounding. A striking example of this phenomenon is the cutting and rejoining of plants during the process of grafting, which humans have used for millennia. Here, I describe how to graft Arabidopsis seedlings and how to monitor the vascular reconnection process during wound healing using fluorescent dyes and fluorescent proteins. Furthermore, I describe how to visualize xylem formation during graft healing. These techniques are useful for studying how the vascular system regenerates and for better understanding the process of plant grafting.
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Melnyk, C. W. (2017). Monitoring vascular regeneration and xylem connectivity in Arabidopsis thaliana. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1544, pp. 91–102). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6722-3_9
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