ClearedLeavesDB: An online database of cleared plant leaf images

Plant Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Das, Abhiram ^a   Bucksch, Alexander ^a,b   Price, Charles A ^c   Weitz, Joshua S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Database; Digital archiving; Digital curation; Images; Leaves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897385580     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-8     Document Type: Article

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