“…Although microfluidic devices have been used to study different aspects of plant cell biology such as gene expression (Busch et al, 2012), cell biomechanics (Sanati Nezhad et al, 2013a, b), cellular mechanism of growth (Agudelo et al, 2013;Grossmann et al, 2011;Sanati Nezhad et al, 2014), phenotyping of plant organs (Jiang et al, 2014), and chemical stimulation of plant cells (Sanati Nezhad et al, 2013c), they had not been performed adequately enough with walled plant cells, so far. The reason is that these cells are not attached to a surface as mammalian cells, but have to be cultivated in suspension.…”