Artificial soil ( ArtSoil ): Recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media
Vera Kaplunova·Eliza Loo·Tobias Griguschies·Lena Müller·Vivien Joisten‐Rosenthal·Tobias Lautwein·Swen Metzger·Paloma Durán·Houda Alioui
SUMMARY Controlled plant growth in laboratories can be achieved by cultivating plants under sterile or axenic conditions on predefined synthetic growth media, typically supplemented with sugar. In nature, plants do not receive exogenous sugar supplies, form symbiosis with microbes, and plant growth is influenced by soil edaphic factors. Thus, physiological and multi‐omic analyses of plants grown on synthetic media will differ from those of soil‐grown plants due to the influence of sucrose, and t