Journal
ANNALS OF BOTANY
Volume 105, Issue 2, Pages 265-276Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp283
Keywords
Stereology; 3D morphology estimation; tomato fruit; cellular structure; image analysis; confocal microscopy
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- European Union
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The cellular structure of fleshy fruits is of interest to study fruit shape, size, mechanical behaviour or sensory texture. The cellular structure is usually not observed in the whole fruit but, instead, in a sample of limited size and volume. It is therefore difficult to extend measurements to the whole fruit and/or to a specific genotype, or to describe the cellular structure heterogeneity within the fruit. An integrated method is presented to describe the cellular structure of the whole fruit from partial three-dimensional (3D) observations, involving the following steps: (1) fruit sampling, (2) 3D image acquisition and processing and (3) measurement and estimation of relevant 3D morphological parameters. This method was applied to characterize DR12 mutant and wild-type tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum). The cellular structure was described using the total volume of the pericarp, the surface area of the cell walls and the ratio of cell-wall surface area to pericarp volume, referred to as the cell-wall surface density. The heterogeneity of cellular structure within the fruit was investigated by estimating variations in the cell-wall surface density with distance to the epidermis. The DR12 mutant presents a greater pericarp volume and an increase of cell-wall surface density under the epidermis.
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