10.11.2017 | Biodiversity Informatics Unit (BDU), iDiv Members, TOP NEWS

Gauging the Elusive

Epidermal pavement cells of cotyledons from Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings 3 days (left) and 5 days (right) after germination. PaCeQuant workflow: automatic processing and segmentation from input images to region filtered images which are the basis for measuring the epidermis pavement cells. Image: Yvonne Pöschl, MLU/iDiv

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Scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in collaboration with their peers from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and iDiv developed a program for gauging the sizes and shapes of plant cells. They named their program PaCeQuant (from Pavement Cell Quantification). In a single pass, the program automatically measures and records specific shape features for several hundred epidermal leaf cells. The scientists provide this program as plugin for the image analysis platform ImageJ, which widely used. As open source software, the PaCeQuant program is freely available for all. Recently, the science journal Plant Physiology published the results of this research. More information in the media release of Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB): http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/public-relations/news/article-detail/die-vermessung-des-unmessbaren/

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