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SUBMITTER: Staedler YM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853293 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staedler Y M YM Kreisberger T T Manafzadeh S S Chartier M M Handschuh S S Pamperl S S Sontag S S Paun O O Schönenberger J J
Journal of experimental botany 20180101 3
The flower is a bisexual reproductive unit where both genders compete for resources. Counting pollen and ovules in flowers is essential to understand how much is invested in each gender. Classical methods to count very numerous pollen grains and ovules are inefficient when pollen grains are tightly aggregated, and when fertilization rates of ovules are unknown. In this study we have therefore developed novel counting techniques based on computed tomography. In order to demonstrate the potential ...[more]