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Image analysis was used in studying stomatal morphology during acclimatization of tobacco plantlets to ex vitro conditions, 45 d after transfer leaf area was 15 times, and total number of stomata per leaf four times increased. During acclimatization stomatal density was decreased considerably on both leaf sides, and was compensated by an increase in stomatal sizes, e.g., in stomatal length and in stomatal area (both guard cells and pore). Elongation of stomata was increased indicating that the originally circular stomata of in vitro plantlets were changed into elliptical ones in ex vitro acclimatized plants.
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Tichá, I., Radochová, B. & Kadleček, P. Stomatal Morphology during Acclimatization of Tobacco Plantlets to ex vitro Conditions. Biologia Plantarum 42, 469–474 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002450210939
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