"Sorted Events" in Model Organisms

June 2002 Newsletter, Issue 502

High Throughput Screening & Sorting of Arabidopsis Seeds

Image showing the single Arabidopsis seeds sorted into microtiter plate wells.

Arabidopsis thaliana is widely used as a model organism in plant biology, offering important advantages for basic research in genetics and molecular biology. While much has been learned about this organism, researchers have been limited in the size and type of experiments involving Arabidopsis seeds due to the time-consuming manual sorting and screening steps.

Union Biometrica, Inc. offers a high-speed flow system that analyzes, sorts, and dispenses Arabidopsis seeds based on size, optical density, or presence of fluorescent markers, without damaging or altering the sample.

Recent experiments were conducted to analyze different phenotypes of seeds and sort the selected population, based on fluorescence level, into 96 well microtiter plates. Each plate was filled with one seed per well, with >99% accuracy from mixed populations in under two minutes.

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