Phytolith analysis for differentiating between foxtail millet (setaria italica) and green foxtail (setaria viridis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Jianping ^a   Lu, Houyuan ^a   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Yang, Xiaoyan ^b   Diao, Xianmin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FOXTAIL MILLET; GLUME; GRAIN; GREEN FOXTAIL; INTERFEROMETER; MICROSCOPIC INTERFEROMETER; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEA; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYTOLITH; PHYTOLITH MORPHOLOGY; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEMMA; SETARIA ITALICA; SETARIA VIRIDIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EASTERN EUROPE; FRANCE; HISTOLOGY; MILLET; PLANT EPIDERMIS; PLANT SEED; SEDIMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

SETARIA ITALICA; SETARIA VIRIDIS;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EUROPE, EASTERN; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PLANT EPIDERMIS; SEEDS; SETARIA PLANT; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79955837134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019726     Document Type: Article

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