EcoFAB

m-CAFEs leverages a tool called EcoFAB, developed under the Berkeley Lab Directed Research and Development program.

To fabricate your own EcoFAB, you can download the design files.

From left to right: 1. EcoFAB: Brachypodium distachyon in hydroponic media with soil-derived microbes. 2. Sampling of the rhizosphere in a soil-filled EcoFAB. 3. B. distachyon seedling in a synthetic soil-filled EcoFAB

EcoFABs have also been designed and used to study interactions of plants with mycorrhizal fungi.

Clockwise from upper left: 1. MycoFAB device with B. distachyon and arbuscular mychorrhizal fungi (AMF, Rhizophagus irregularis). 2. Overview of AMF infected B. distachyon root stained with WGA-FITC to highlight fungal structures. 3. Arbuscules of R. irregularis stained with WGA-FITC inside parenchyma cells of B. distachyon. 4. Dissecting microscope image of root and sporulating AMF inside the MycoFAB