Mistletoe Berry Outline Mapping with a Path Curve Function and Recording the Circadian Rhythm of their Phenotypic Shape Change

This paper presents a discovery: the change of the outline shape of mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. album) berries in vivo and in situ during ripening. It was found that a plant organ that is usually considered to merely increase in size actually changes shape in a specific rhythmic fashion. We introdu...

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Main Authors: Renatus Derbidge, Peter Heusser, Stephan Baumgartner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01749/full