Subject: Re: leaf area meter -
From: [email-masked] (Peter Lundberg)
Date: 18 May 1994 08:34:48 GMT
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

Try to photocopy the leaves, and cut and weigh the copied
"paper-leaves". If you know the weight per area for the photocopy
paper, you'll get the area of the leaves by simple calculation.
Obviously this approach is not non-destructive, nevertheless useful for
some experiments...

Peter

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