plant roots

[bochet at bobby.iaf.cnrs-gif.fr]

In article <423ln2$cv at surz03.HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE>, Peter Frenzel 
             <frenzel at mailer.uni-marburg.de> writes:
>We want to quantify (lenght, diameter, surface area ...) root systems of
>plants. A possible procedure would be to produce a bitmap (by scanning or any
>other method) as the input for a program that performs the necessary
>calculations. Is there any shareware/freeware on the net?
> 
> Thank you, Peter

Perhaps you should look at programms used for quantifying such features  
in the dendritic trees of neurons. 
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