Abstract
This chapter gives examples of basic procedures of quantification of plant structures with the use of image analysis, which are commonly employed to describe differences among experimental treatments or phenotypes of plant material. Tasks are demonstrated with the use of ImageJ, a widely used public domain Java image processing program. Principles of sampling design based on systematic uniform random sampling for quantitative studies of anatomical parameters are given to obtain their unbiased estimations and simplified “rules of thumb” are presented. The basic procedures mentioned in the text are (1) sampling, (2) calibration, (3) manual length measurement, (4) leaf surface area measurement, (5) estimation of particle density demonstrated on an example of stomatal density, and (6) analysis of epidermal cell shape.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the funding by the project GACR P501/10/0340, by the Charles University in Prague, SVV 265203 and institutional support RVO:67985823.
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Albrechtová, J., Kubínová, Z., Soukup, A., Janáček, J. (2014). Image Analysis: Basic Procedures for Description of Plant Structures. In: Žárský, V., Cvrčková, F. (eds) Plant Cell Morphogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1080. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-643-6_5
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