No cell is an island: characterising the leaf epidermis using epidermalmorph, a new R package.

ABSTRACT: The leaf epidermis is the interface between a plant and its environment. The epidermis is highly variable in morphology, with links to both phylogeny and environment, and this diversity is relevant to several fields, including physiology, functional traits, palaeobotany, taxonomy and developmental biology. Describing and measuring leaf epidermal traits remains challenging. Current approaches are either extremely labour-intensive and not feasible for large studies or limited to measurements of individual cells. Here, we present a method to characterise individual cell size, shape (including the effect of neighbouring cells) and arrangement from light microscope images. We provide the first automated characterisation of cell arrangement (from traced images) as well as multiple new shape char

SUBMITTER: Brown MJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10098627 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature