Seed Morphology in Silene Based on Geometric Models

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081707%3A_____%2F20%3A00539904" target="_blank" >RIV/68081707:_____/20:00539904 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/12/1787" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/12/1787</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9121787" target="_blank" >10.3390/plants9121787</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Seed Morphology in Silene Based on Geometric Models

Original language description

Seed description in morphology is often based on adjectives such as ´spherical´, ´globular´, or ´reniform´, but this does not provide a quantitative method. A new morphological approach based on the comparison of seed images with geometric models provides a seed description in Silene species on a quantitative basis. The novelty of the proposed method is based in the comparison of the seed images with geometric models according to a cardioid shape. The J index is a measurement that indicates the seed percentage of similarity with a cardioid or cardioid-derived figures used as models. The seeds of Silene species have high values of similarity with the cardioid and cardioid-derived models (J index superior to 90). The comparison with different figures allows species description and differentiation. The method is applied here to seeds of 21 species and models are proposed for some of them including S. diclinis, an endangered species. The method is discussed in the context of previous comparison with the measures used in traditional morphometric analysis. The similarity of seed images with geometric figures opens a new perspective for the automatized taxonomical evaluation of samples linking seed morphology to functional traits in endangered Silene species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plants

ISSN

2223-7747

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

1787

UT code for WoS article

000602409100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097840148