Detection of vascular bundles using cell wall birefringence on exposure to polarized light

• Main Authors: Yoshinori Murata, Satoshi Kubo, Eiji Togawa, Siti Fatimah Mhd Ramlee, Othman Sulaiman, Rokiah Hashim, Wan Asma Ibrahim, Akihi Kosugi, Akiko Hirooka, Hisashi Abe
• Format: Non-Indexed Article
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/8128/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926669014007638

Vascular bundles (VBs) of oil palm trunks exhibited birefringence due to polarized orientation of their cell wall components, although another component of the trunks, parenchyma tissue (PT), did not. The intensity of the birefringence depended on the VB composition; therefore, it was possible to es...