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. 2015 Jul 20;10(7):e0133386. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133386

Fig 1. Salt glands of the mangrove species Avicennia officinalis.

Fig 1

(A) Transverse section of leaf showing the adaxial (upper) epidermal layer with two salt glands (arrows). (B) Secretion (scn) above the salt gland (sg) can be observed from the top view of the adaxial epidermal layer. (C) The salt gland-enriched epidermal peels (*) as indicated by the right brace in (A) were obtained from the leaves for subsequent protein extraction and downstream proteomic analysis. Scale bars: 20μm (A), 100μm (B), 1cm (C).