A part of the content of this book has been involved to build a method for estimating the number and sizes of the pores in the sieve plates of the sieve tubes of the plant phloem. The reference of this research is:

Bussičres P. Estimating the number and size of phloem sieve plate pores using longitudinal views and geometric reconstruction. Scientific Reports 4: 4929 (2014). doi: 10.1038/srep04929.

It is published together supplementary files in Open Acess (according to Creative Common Attribution 3.0 Licence) on the site:

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140512/srep04929/full/srep04929.html.

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