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The lateral root initiation index: an integrative measure of primordium formation.
Annals of botany - 1 Mar 2009
Dubrovsky J G, Soukup A, Napsucialy-Mendivil S, Jeknic Z, Ivanchenko M G
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Lateral root initiation is an essential and continuous process in the formation of root systems; therefore, its quantitative analysis is indispensable. In this study a new measure of lateral root initiation is proposed and analysed, namely the lateral root initiation index (I(LRI)), which defines how many lateral roots and/or primordia are formed along a parent-root portion corresponding to...
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