Polarimetric imaging microscopy for advanced inspection of vegetal tissues

Abstract Optical microscopy techniques for plant inspection benefit from the fact that at least one of the multiple properties of light (intensity, phase, wavelength, polarization) may be modified by vegetal tissues. Paradoxically, polarimetric microscopy although being a mature technique in biophot...

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Autores principales: Albert Van Eeckhout, Enrique Garcia-Caurel, Teresa Garnatje, Juan Carlos Escalera, Mercè Durfort, Josep Vidal, José J. Gil, Juan Campos, Angel Lizana
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/7ea675477a7a4bafbfb2daf0c0e0ec1b
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Sumario:Abstract Optical microscopy techniques for plant inspection benefit from the fact that at least one of the multiple properties of light (intensity, phase, wavelength, polarization) may be modified by vegetal tissues. Paradoxically, polarimetric microscopy although being a mature technique in biophotonics, is not so commonly used in botany. Importantly, only specific polarimetric observables, as birefringence or dichroism, have some presence in botany studies, and other relevant metrics, as those based on depolarization, are underused. We present a versatile method, based on a representative selection of polarimetric observables, to obtain and to analyse images of plants which bring significant information about their structure and/or the spatial organization of their constituents (cells, organelles, among other structures). We provide a thorough analysis of polarimetric microscopy images of sections of plant leaves which are compared with those obtained by other commonly used microscopy techniques in plant biology. Our results show the interest of polarimetric microscopy for plant inspection, as it is non-destructive technique, highly competitive in economical and time consumption, and providing advantages compared to standard non-polarizing techniques.