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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Transparent Soil"”.
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The development of a transparent soil and its application in imaging root trajectories and root bacteria interactions
Biological processes that occur in the soil have important environmental implications. These processes include root growth and microbial interactions with roots and soil particles and they influence the efficiency of crop production and, in turn, global food security. The observation and imaging of …
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Novel applications of advanced optical microscopy for microbiology
… environment. To address this, a mimetic 3D transparent soil culture medium was fabricated and designed specifically for bacterial culture. This novel culture medium was optimised for two wide-ranging genera of soil bacteria, Streptomyces coelicolor and Bacillus subtilis. Following careful …
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Factors controlling root growth in heterogeneous substrates: physical structures and root behaviour
… to suggest that the physical structure of soil has a strong influence on their abilities to grow and develop healthily. Observing roots in 3-dimensions, <i>in situ</i> and non-destructively is important for understanding the complex nature of the physical root/soil relationship, however …
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An experimental method for visualizing undrained shearing failure in a transparent soft clay surrogate
… included significant disturbance of the soil sample or methods of shearing along a transparent surface. Additional existing methods involved seeding of the soil with various markers creating a non-homogenous soil mixture, adding potential sources for error. None of the previous attempts …
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1-g Shake Table Experimental Evaluation of Building Settlements Founded on Liquefiable Soils
… a series of 1-g shake table experiments using a transparent soil box to reproduce liquefaction-induced building settlements. Settlements were evaluated using a scaled model of a building foundation representative of a lightly loaded single to double story building. Experimental testing included …