Clubroot is of serious concern to the agricultural community of Western Canada. Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada use the Agilent endstation at the Mid-IR beamline to compare susceptible and resistant varieties of canola roots which have been innoculated with clubroot. These researchers use FTIR microspectroscopy mapping to better understand the innoculation pathway and identify key genes expressed in the cell walls of resistant varieties of canola.

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Jiangying Tu; Li Qin; Chithra Karunakaran; Yandou Wei; Gary Peng. Lignin accumulation in cell wall plays a role in clubroot resistance. Front. Plant Sci., 2024, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1401265