Young plant roots share a common architecture: a central vascular cylinder surrounded by enveloping cylinders of ground and dermal tissue produced by an apical promeristem. Roots with closed apical organization can be studied to explore how ontogeny is managed. The analysis of transverse and longitudinal sections has been the most useful approach for this, but suffers from limitations. We developed a new method that utilizes digital photography of transverse sections and three‐dimensional (3D) computer virtual reconstructions to overcome the limitations of other techniques.

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玉米亚种根尖后生木质部导管的三维数字图像构建。墨西哥的薄横截面。


幼小的植物根具有共同的结构：中央维管圆柱体被由顶端原分生组织产生的地面和真皮组织的包络圆柱体包围。可以研究具有封闭顶端组织的根，以探索如何管理个体发育。横向和纵向截面的分析是最有用的方法，但也存在局限性。我们开发了一种新方法，利用横截面数字摄影和三维（3D）计算机虚拟重建来克服其他技术的局限性。