So far researchers have tested the transparent effect on rice, tobacco, tomato, cucumber, moss, and other flowering plants. But this sort of botanical x-ray can be applied to anything that sprouts.

Plants are primary producers in the carbon ... used microfluidics technology to develop a transparent soil habitat called the rhizosphere-on-a-chip. Scientists can use the rhizosphere-on-a-chip ...

For plants, that means scientists can record visible ... the researchers directed a stream of infrared photons at a plant in a transparent box with a photon counter behind it, and at the same ...