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The technique of stray-field NMR has been applied to the study of an oil-bearing seed. It is found to provide additional information about the smallest size of oil drops within the cotyledon not easily measurable by other methods. A peanut was chosen as a convenient seed to investigate so as to allow comparison with previously published NMR pulsed field gradient data. We find a broad distribution of oil drop sizes ranging from a lower limit of order 0.26 µm up to a maximum of approximately 1.3 µm.
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Carlton, K., Halse, M., Maphossa, A. et al. NMR stray-field analysis of oil drop size distribution in peanut cotyledons. Eur Biophys J 29, 574–578 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002490000098
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002490000098