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Strategies for Optimizing Heavy Metal Staining in Freeze-substituted Resin Embedded Plants Samples for Electron and X-ray Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2020

Kirk Czymmek
Affiliation:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Keith Duncan
Affiliation:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Ningning Zhang
Affiliation:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Ru Zhang
Affiliation:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Abstract

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Type
Advances in Imaging Approaches for Plant Biology
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2020

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