Quantification of variability in trichome patterns

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue November, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Greese, Bettina ^a   Hülskamp, Martin ^b   Fleck, Christian ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell to cell variability; Noise; Pattern formation; Plant development; Spatial data analysis; Trichome patterning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910149867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00596     Document Type: Article

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