Assessing carotenoid content in plant leaves with reflectance spectroscopy

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 272-281

  Gitelson, Anatoly A ^a,b   Zur, Yoav ^b   Chivkunova, Olga B ^c   Merzlyak, Mark N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; CHLOROPHYLL;

ARTICLE; BEECH; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHESTNUT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAPLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; REFLECTOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACER; EMBRYOPHYTA; FAGUS;

ALGORITHMS; CAROTENOIDS; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036511831     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2002)075<0272:ACCIPL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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