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Table 3 Cell characteristics of the distal 6 mm of root tissue of ten Beta genotypes; 1–9: sugar beet, 10: fodder beet

From: Workflow for phenotyping sugar beet roots by automated evaluation of cell characteristics and tissue arrangement using digital image processing

Genotypes

Number of cells

Max cell diameter [µm]

Mean cell diameter [µm]

Number of cambium rings

Amount of cell wall material [% of ROI pixels]

1

6046 ± 747ab

82 ± 6ab

18.3 ± 1.1ab

4.5 ± 0.5a

0.35 ± 0.0076ab

2

6036 ± 1326ab

87 ± 13ab

18.3 ± 2ab

5.75 ± 1.2a

0.35 ± 0.0140ab

3

5319 ± 513ab

90 ± 10bc

19.5 ± 1.11ab

5.75 ± 0.5a

0.35 ± 0.0097ab

4

5174 ± 243ab

112 ± 23ab

19.2 ± 0.62ab

5.5 ± 0.58a

0.35 ± 0.0066ab

5

6288 ± 986ab

90 ± 11ab

17.7 ± 1.67ab

5.75 ± 0.96a

0.36 ± 0.0169a

6

6949 ± 1777ab

81 ± 19ab

17.0 ± 2.38b

5.25 ± 1.2a

0.37 ± 0.0162a

7

7259 ± 433a

76 ± 14c

16.6 ± 0.68b

5.25 ± 1.2a

0.36 ± 0.0037a

8

5844 ± 1405ab

88 ± 23ab

18.6 ± 2.28ab

6.0 ± 1.6a

0.35 ± 0.023ab

9

7052 ± 1649a

72 ± 19c

16.8 ± 2.44b

6.25 ± 0.9a

0.37 ± 0.0213a

10

4081 ± 998b

129 ± 14a

21.8 ± 3.13a

5.5 ± 1a

0.32 ± 0.0201b

MSD

2713

31.8

4.6

2.5

0.037

  1. Automatic determination from microscopic images of cell tissue with four samples per genotype. Mean and SD of the four images per genotype are indicated. MSD: minimum significant difference calculated by HSD test, alpha = 0.05. Different letters indicate significant differences between genotypes (p<0.01)