Leaf Anatomy and Photochemical Behaviour of Solanum lycopersicum L. Plants from Seeds Irradiated with Low-LET Ionising Radiation

Table 1

Cell shape in different tissues of juvenile leaves of S. lycopersicum L. “Microtom”. Mean values ± standard errors are shown (𝑛=75). Different letters correspond to significantly different values according to multiple comparison tests (𝑃<0.05).

Leaf JL		Aspect ratio		Sphericity		Convexity
Upper epidermis	C	1.97 ± 0.16	a	0.308 ± 0.050	a	0.926 ± 0.021	ab
	0.3 Gy	2.00 ± 0.13	a	0.290 ± 0.038	a	0.941 ± 0.013	a
	10 Gy	2.10 ± 0.12	a	0.239 ± 0.037	a	0.898 ± 0.016	ab
	20 Gy	2.17 ± 0.14	a	0.258 ± 0.045	a	0.909 ± 0.019	abc
	50 Gy	1.70 ± 0.08	a	0.376 ± 0.037	a	0.927 ± 0.016	ab
	100 Gy	1.97 ± 0.14	a	0.286 ± 0.042	a	0.876 ± 0.028	c
Palisade parenchyma	C	2.90 ± 0.10	a	0.109 ± 0.015	a	0.879 ± 0.010	a
	0.3 Gy	3.04 ± 0.12	a	0.099 ± 0.016	a	0.805 ± 0.016	b
	10 Gy	3.09 ± 0.13	a	0.093 ± 0.019	a	0.792 ± 0.015	b
	20 Gy	2.83 ± 0.11	a	0.101 ± 0.017	a	0.784 ± 0.017	b
	50 Gy	3.14 ± 0.14	a	0.082 ± 0.016	a	0.772 ± 0.016	b
	100 Gy	2.75 ± 0.11	a	0.119 ± 0.020	a	0.805 ± 0.017	b
Spongy parenchyma	C	1.90 ± 0.08	a	0.307 ± 0.033	a	0.893 ± 0.012	a
	0.3 Gy	1.80 ± 0.07	a	0.341 ± 0.029	a	0.876 ± 0.013	a
	10 Gy	2.03 ± 0.10	a	0.290 ± 0.031	a	0.901 ± 0.012	a
	20 Gy	1.94 ± 0.12	a	0.344 ± 0.040	a	0.881 ± 0.015	a
	50 Gy	1.74 ± 0.09	a	0.393 ± 0.035	a	0.883 ± 0.014	a
	100 Gy	1.98 ± 0.12	a	0.322 ± 0.037	a	0.878 ± 0.015	a
Lower epidermis	C	1.78 ± 0.09	bc	0.343 ± 0.045	ab	0.919 ± 0.019	a
	0.3 Gy	2.25 ± 0.17	ab	0.263 ± 0.044	b	0.933 ± 0.024	a
	10 Gy	2.19 ± 0.11	abc	0.218 ± 0.034	b	0.888 ± 0.020	ab
	20 Gy	1.80 ± 0.13	bc	0.378 ± 0.047	ab	0.926 ± 0.017	a
	50 Gy	1.67 ± 0.01	c	0.461 ± 0.051	a	0.924 ± 0.021	a
	100 Gy	2.38 ± 0.21	a	0.257 ± 0.057	b	0.857 ± 0.030	b