The MorphoLeaf application allows you to extract the contour of multiple leaf images and identify their biologically-relevant landmarks.
These landmarks are then used to quantify morphological parameters of individual leaves and to reconstruct average leaf shapes.
MorphoLeaf is developed by the Modeling and Digital Imaging and the Transcription Factors and Architecture teams of the Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA Versailles, France, and the Biophyscis and Development group at RDP, Lyon.
LATEST RELEASE: MorphoLeaf v1.16.1 (2023/05/23)
MorphoLeaf is freely available for academic research or teaching
purposes. Please contact us for any other usage. MorphoLeaf is
distributed as is, without any warranty of any kind.
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Any publication of results generated using Free-D must include the following reference:
Mohamed Oughou, Eric Biot, Nicolas Arnaud, Aude Maugarny-Calès, Patrick Laufs, Philippe Andrey and Jasmine Burguet (2023). Model-based reconstruction of whole organ growth dynamics reveals invariant patterns in leaf morphogenesis?, Quantitative Plant Biology DOI : https://www.doi.org/10.1017/qpb.2022.23
Biot E, Cortizo M, Burguet J, Kiss A, Oughou M, Maugarny-Calès A, Gonçalves B, Adroher B, Andrey P, Boudaoud A, Laufs P( 2016). Multiscale quantification of morphodynamics: MorphoLeaf software for 2D shape analysis Development 143, 3417-3428; doi: 10.1242/dev.134619
Andrey P & Maurin Y (2005). Free-D: an integrated environment for three-dimensional reconstruction from serial sections. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 145, 233-244.
Version | Date | Ubuntu64 | Debian64 | Windows | MacOSX |
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1.14 | 2017.03.23 |
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1.15 | 2019.01.14 |
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1.16 | 2023.05.23 |
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For version 1.16:
Unzip the zip archive 'Morpholeaf1.16.zip'.
Install with 'sudo apt install libtiff5-dev libfftw3-dev libhdf5-dev libyaml-dev'
Launch freed in a console, load your images and launch MorphoLeaf 1.16 in the "plugins" Free-D menu.
Before version 1.16:
Download Free-D Software
Create a new folder "plugins" in the folder that contains the Free-d application.
Move the file "libmorpholeaf_1.xx" in the plugins folder.
Start Free-D, load your pictures and start MorphoLeaf in the "plugins" Free-D menu.
Download here the Morpholeaf software manual (version 1.0, PDF).
Eric Biot (eric biot AT inrae fr)