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TerraForms
TerraForms is a group of platforms of custom-designed synthetic environments, microfluidics technologies, and in-house instrumentation to simulate soil properties and visualize soil microbial and plant community dynamics.
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TerraForms: Pore-Scale Micromodels
Pore-scale micromodels simulate soil porosity and aggregate size distribution on a microfluidic platform.
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TerraForms: RhizoChip
RhizoChip provides a microscale soil environment that retains the physical structure of natural soils and can be used to map the molecular environment of roots.
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TerraForms: SubTap Microbial and RhizoTap Rhizosphere Platforms
The SubTap and RhizoTap platforms are for rapid analysis of metabolites resulting from plant–microbe and microbe–microbe interactions.
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TerraForms: 3D Bioprinted Synthetic Soil Aggregates
EMSL's three-dimensional bioprinted habitat mimics natural soil and provides a chemically defined, translucent alternative for studying microorganisms.
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TerraForms: Pore2Chip
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Labatory's Pore2Chip creates field representative micromodels and RhizoChips.
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