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Volume 28 Number 12 17 June 2009

Mushroom-shaped oil glands on the surface of a Basil sepal
This SEM image was captured by Mayumi Wakazaki, Mayuko Sato, and Kiminori Toyooka of the RIKEN Plant Science Center.

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