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. 2018 Dec 25;8(1):4. doi: 10.3390/plants8010004

Figure 3.

Figure 3

The morphology of the leaf blade/sheath boundary in reported ligule mutants. Cartoons depicting the typical morphology of the blade/sheath boundary in mature leaves of wild-type (WT), liguleless1 (lg1), liguleless2 (lg2), eligulumA (eliA, a barley mutant), Liguleless3 (Lg3), Liguleless narrow (Lgn), double Lgn/lg1, double Lgn/lg2, and Wavy Auricles in Blade (Wab1) plants. In each cartoon, the blade (B), midrib (MR), and sheath (S) are labelled. The ligule (purple) and the auricles (cyan) are also highlighted. Where the mutant leaf lacks a ligule, but retains a clear boundary between the blade and sheath, the boundary is indicated by a dotted line. The arrows indicate the direction of the displacement of the sheath tissue in the mutant.