Abstract
Oil bodies (OBs) are seed-specific lipid storage organelles that allow the accumulation of neutral lipids that sustain plantlet development after the onset of germination. Using fluorescent dyes and confocal microscopy, we monitored the dynamics of OBs in living Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) embryos at different stages of development (Miquel et al., 2014). Image acquisition was followed by a detailed statistical analysis of OB size and distribution during seed development in the four dimensions (x, y, z, and t).
Keywords: Oil body, Embryo, Size, Imaging, Statistical analysis
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Acknowledgments
This work was funded by INRA and, in particular, by the divisions BAP (Plant Biology and Breeding) and MIA (Applied Mathematics and Informatics) for G. Trigui’s Ph.D. This work was adapted from Miquel et al. (2014).
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