Seeing space: Visualization and quantification of plant leaf structure using X-ray micro-computed tomography

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 385-390

  Pajor, R ^a   Fleming, A ^b   Osborne, C P ^b   Rolfe, S A ^b   Sturrock, C J ^a   Mooney, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872319790     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers392     Document Type: Review

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