An optical clearing technique for plant tissues allowing deep imaging and compatible with fluorescence microscopy

Plant Physiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1684-1687

  Warner, Cherish A ^a   Biedrzycki, Meredith L ^a   Jacobs, Samuel S ^a   Wisser, Randall J ^a   Caplan, Jeffrey L ^a   Janine Sherrier, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

BARREL MEDIC; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAIZE; NODULATION; PEA; PLANT LEAF; PRESERVATION; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOBACCO;

FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEAS; PLANT LEAVES; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; TOBACCO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84914175035     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.244673     Document Type: Article

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