Observations on the structure and osmotic potentials of parenchyma associated with the internal phloem of potato tubers |
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Authors: | Carol A. Peterson R. L. Peterson W. G. Barker |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2. Department of Botany and Genetics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Abstract: | The structure and osmotic potentials of parenchyma cells associated with internal phloem of growing, dormant, and sprouting potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum L. cv. Irish Cobbler) were studied. Companion cells, specialized parenchyma cells, and storage parenchyma cells were recognizable by differences in structural characteristics. Companion cells were usually densely cytoplasmic with numerous large mitochondria and plastids with little or no starch. The specialized parenchyma cells which surrounded groups of sieve tubes and companion cells had numerous vacuoles of various size, small mitochondria, plastids with very little or no starch, and protein inclusions. Storage parenchyma cells had amyloplasts with very large starch grains, a large central vacuole with osmiophilic inclusions, and few organelles in a peripheral cytoplasm. The osmotic potentials of specialized parenchyma cells and storage parenchyma cells were similar and did not vary regardless of whether the tubers were growing, dormant, or sprouting. |
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