Stereometrical analysis of number and size of prolamellar bodies during pea chloroplast development

Autor: Agnieszka Mostowska
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, Vol 54, Iss 1, Pp 53-63 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2083-9480
DOI: 10.5586/asbp.1985.005
Popis: The plastid prolamelar bodies in dark-grown pea seedlings undergo gradual transformation and decay after illumination with low intensity light. Random micrographs do not give direct information concerning the sizes and average numbers of prolamellar bodies in a plastid. These values were obtained after evaluation by a stereometrical method from the ratio of polamellar bodies sizes to the plastid size and from the frequency of prolamellar body sections of a given diameter. Plastids of dark-grown seedlings contained on the average at least one prolamellar body. After illumination the size of the bodies decreased rapidly owing to dispersion into primary thylakoids and split into much smaller numerous prolamellar bodies.
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