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. 2013 Sep 16;64(16):5145–5155. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ert300

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Fig. 4. — Only shorter cells are capable of producing root hairs. (A, B) CLSM visualization of the zone of root hair initiation in cv. ‘Karat’ showing the surface of the root (A) and an optical section through the epidermal layer (B). Asterisks indicate the same cell in the two images. (C) 3D reconstruction of epidermal cells within the mature zone of the root of cv. ‘Karat’. Trichoblasts are shown in green and atrichoblasts in red. (D) Length of the epidermal cells in the mature root hair zone of cv. ‘Karat’. Bars, 50 μm.