%0 Journal Article %T Measuring the compressive modulus of elasticity of pith-filled plant stems %A Daniel J. Robertson %A Douglas D. Cook %A Jean N. Edwards %A Loay A. Al-Zube %A Wenhuan Sun %J Archive of "Plant Methods". %D 2017 %R 10.1186/s13007-017-0250-y %X Transverse cross-section of a maize stalk as obtained by X-ray computed tomography. a X-ray CT image, b X-ray CT image overlaid with lines used to segment the image into rind and pith regions. Segmentation was performed with a custom computer algorithm [23 %K Corn stalk tissue %K Compression stiffness %K Strain measurement %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680773/