Fig. 6.

Water entry and migration in the testa in the initial stages of imbibition for soybean (‘Mikawashima’). Changes in a soybean at a longitudinal section parallel to the raphe–antiraphe are indicated; the same three-dimensional image data as in Fig. 2 were processed. Top: the sliced images of γ section (Fig. 1D); bottom: MIP images from δ to ε sections (Fig. 1D). (A, G) 5 min, (B, H) 20 min, (C, I) 35 min, (D, J) 50 min, (E, K) 1 h 5 min, and (F, L) 1 h 20 min.