PMID- 33576986 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210330 LR - 20210330 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 2246 DP - 2021 TI - Leaf-FISH: In Situ Hybridization Method for Visualizing Bacterial Taxa on Plant Surfaces. PG - 111-128 LID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-1115-9_8 [doi] AB - High-resolution, spatial characterization of microbial communities is critical for the accurate understanding of microbe-microbe and microbe-plant interactions in leaf surfaces (phyllosphere). However, leaves are specially challenging surfaces for imaging methods due to their high autofluorescence. In this chapter we describe the Leaf-FISH method. Leaf-FISH is a fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) method specially adapted to the requirements of plant tissues. Leaf-FISH uses a combination of leaf pretreatments coupled with spectral imaging confocal microscopy and image post-processing to visualize bacterial taxa on a structural-informed context recreated from the residual background autofluorescence of the tissues. Leaf-FISH is suitable for simultaneous identification of multiple bacterial taxa using multiple taxon-specific fluorescently labeled oligonucleotide probes (combinatorial labeling). FAU - Peredo, Elena L AU - Peredo EL AD - Marine Biological Laboratory, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA. elperedo@mbl.edu. FAU - Simmons, Sheri AU - Simmons S AD - Marine Biological Laboratory, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Oligonucleotide Probes) SB - IM MH - Bacteria/genetics/*growth & development MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence/*methods MH - Microscopy, Confocal/methods MH - Oligonucleotide Probes/genetics MH - Plant Leaves/*microbiology MH - Plants/*microbiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Arabidopsis thaliana OT - Combinatorial labeling OT - Fluorescence in situ hybridization OT - Leaf OT - Microenvironments OT - Phyllosphere EDAT- 2021/02/13 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/31 06:00 CRDT- 2021/02/12 12:12 PHST- 2021/02/12 12:12 [entrez] PHST- 2021/02/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/31 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-1115-9_8 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2246:111-128. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1115-9_8.