Achillea lanulosa has complex, highly dissected leaves that vary in shape and size along an altitudinal gradient. Plants from a high and an intermediate altitude population were clonally replicated and grown in a controlled environment at warm and cool conditions under bright light. There were genetic differences among populations and among individuals within populations in leaf size and shape....

The paleohexaploid crop Brassica rapa harbors an enormous reservoir of morphological variation, encompassing leafy vegetables, vegetable and fodder turnips (Brassica rapa, ssp. campestris), and oil crops, with different crops having very different leaf morphologies. In the triplicated B. rapa genome, many genes have multiple paralogs that may be regulated differentially and contribute to phenot...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY I present a protocol for creating geometric leaf shape metrics to facilitate widespread application of geometric morphometric methods to leaf shape measurement. • METHODS AND RESULTS To quantify circularity, I created a novel shape metric in the form of the vector between a circle and a line, termed geometric circularity. Using leaves from 17 fern taxa, I pe...

Leaf shape is mutable, changing in ways modulated by both development and environment within genotypes. A complete model of leaf phenotype would incorporate the changes in leaf shape during juvenile-to-adult phase transitions and the ontogeny of each leaf. Here, we provide a morphometric description of >33,000 leaflets from a set of tomato (Solanum spp) introgression lines grown under controlle...

a new species from iran is described and illustrated here as kickxia iranica (plantaginaceae). kickxia iranica is morphologically similar to k. commutata, a species native to mediterranean region, however it can be distinguished from the latter by leaf shape, color of corolla, habit, stem branching and length of leaf, petiole, pedicel and corolla. notes on its distribution, ecology and phenolog...

Leaves can be categorized based on various physical attributes but the most popular attribute is shape. For example, we can use „shape‟ as a criterion to differentiate between a mango leaf and a banana leaf. Ideally this criterion can be of immense help to the user of an image database that stores, for instance, the images of different kinds of leaves. The user would often wish to retrieve imag...

The structure and leaf development of the shoot apical meristem in embryos and seedlings of Thuja orientalis L.were observed by using SEM,and the area of the shoot apical meristem was studied by an image analyzer.The shoot apex of embryos was of a round tip cone shape with flat sides;it was transformed into an inverted boat shape.In seedlings,the shoot apical meristem was of a convex-rectangula...