MATLAB: Rotating x-axis labels on an image

Question

I have created an image using the following code:

 smallmatrix_6partic=[0 1 0 0 0 0 ; 0 0 0 0 0 0 ; 0 1 0 0 0 0 ; 0 1 0 0 0 0; 0 0 0 1 0 0; 0 0 0 0 1 0];
 smallmatrix_colheading= {'A','B','C','D','E','F','G'}; % these are going to be the row headings of the matrix
 [rows,cols]=size(smallmatrix_6partic);
 imagesc(smallmatrix_6partic)
 set(gca,'Xtick',1:rows,'XTickLabel',smallmatrix_colheading)
 set(gca,'Ytick',1:rows,'YTickLabel',smallmatrix_colheading)

My question is, is there a way to change the alignment and rotate the x-axis labels (A, B, C, etc…), maybe 90 degrees clockwise?

Answer 1

In R2014b or newer:

>> set(gca,'XTickLabelRotation',90)