Plant research

Making better tissue slices for plant research

The old fashioned method of free-hand sectioning of plant tissue has been performed for a very long time. Free-hand sectioning is done with razor blades, but this is difficult to apply to plant samples that are hard to hold or manipulate. Vibratomes or vibrating microtomes and rotary microtomes can be an excellent tool for cutting plant tissue sections, and these machines help generate high quality thin sections. Certain plant parts are also made of harder materials, such as seeds or seed pods. Rotary microtomes are capable of cutting through much harder specimens and can be used to section those plant components.

Our Compresstome® tissue slicers and rotary microtomes have been developed and used extensively in plant research. In fact, there is even a simple published guide to use for cutting plant slices. Download this guide below:

Download Plant Sectioning Guide