Hide and seek: Uncloaking the vegetative shoot apex of Arabidopsis thaliana

Plant Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-548

  Vanhaeren, Hannes ^a,b   Gonzalez, Nathalie ^a,b   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

leaf primordia; plant growth; serial sections; shoot apical meristem; three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

LEAF PRIMORDIA; PLANT GROWTH; SERIAL SECTION; SHOOT APICAL MERISTEMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; REPAIR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARABIDOPSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS;

EID: 77954928405     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04259.x     Document Type: Article

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