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Methods for Creating Stomatal Impressions Directly onto Archivable Slides
Author(s) -
Gitz Dennis C.,
Baker Jeffrey T.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj2008.0143n
Subject(s) - stomatal density , yield (engineering) , agronomy , environmental science , plant density , assimilation (phonology) , mathematics , horticulture , biology , botany , photosynthesis , materials science , linguistics , philosophy , sowing , metallurgy
Stomatal density has been shown to be a primary determinant of crop yield, water use efficiency, and limitation to CO 2 assimilation rate. Widely used methods of assessing stomatal density sample relatively small regions of the leaf, are labor intensive, or do not yield stable archivable samples for revisiting samples. We describe several methods of producing such epidermal impressions that yield samples large enough to generate stomatal density maps across entire leaf surfaces.