LEAF-E: A tool to analyze grass leaf growth using function fitting

Plant Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Voorend, Wannes ^a,b,c   Lootens, Peter ^c   Nelissen, Hilde ^a,b   Roldán Ruiz, Isabel ^c   Inzé, Dirk ^a,b   Muylle, Hilde ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cell length; Growth zone; Leaf elongation rate; Leaf length; Non linear regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928253625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-10-37     Document Type: Article

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