Development of a cellular body during differentiation of conidial chlamydospores in Fusarium

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1205-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward F. Schneider ◽  
W. L. Seaman

The development of cellular bodies during the conversion of conidial cells to chlamydospores in Fusarium sulphureum (F. sambucinum f.6) is described. Development of the bodies from dilated cisternae within the endoplasmic reticulum begins before there are other recognizable changes in cell structure and is completed before new cell wall material is laid down. Each body is bounded by a single membrane derived from the endoplasmic reticulum and contains electron-dense particles, vesicular structures, and usually a microbody. These components remain intact within the body until a late stage in chlamydospore development. At that time the contents become granular, the vesicles and microbodies disappear, and the body becomes vacuole-like. A similar body was found in cells of Fusarium poae at comparable stages of chlamydospore development.

1974 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna J. Bowles ◽  
D. H. Northcote

1. Maize seedling roots were incubated in vivo with d-[U-14C]glucose for 2, 5, 10, 15, 30 and 45min. The total incorporation of radioactivity into polysaccharide components in isolated fractions was investigated, and the pattern of incorporation into different polysaccharide components within the rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and exported material was analysed. 2. The membrane compartments reached a saturation value of radioactivity in polysaccharide components by 30min incubation. Radioactivity in exported polysaccharide continued to increase after that time. The latter was formed and maintained by a steady-state turnover of polysaccharide synthesis and transport from the membrane system. 3. If the only access of the slime polysaccharide to the cell surface is via dictyosome-derived vesicles, the amount of slime components in the Golgi apparatus would have to be displaced every 0.3min in order to maintain the observed rates of increase in slime. This is in contrast with a displacement time of about 2.5min that is necessary for polysaccharide components in the Golgi apparatus to produce the observed increase in cell-wall material. The activity of the membrane system in the production of maize root slime is 8 times as great as that of the membrane system involved in cell-wall synthesis. 4. If the amount of polysaccharide material in the Golgi apparatus is maintained only by inflow of polymeric material from the rough endoplasmic reticulum the total amount of slime components in the rough endoplasmic reticulum would have to be displaced every 7min to maintain a constant amount in the Golgi apparatus. If the endoplasmic reticulum contributed directly to the cell surface in the synthesis of cell-wall material, displacement times necessary to maintain the observed rate of polymer production would be very slow.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1702-1708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan J. Blackman ◽  
Edward C. Yeung

The root cap of Epidendrum ibaguense has a rounded profile with a root cap junction present between the cap and meristem. A distinct columella region is lacking. Mitotic figures are infrequent in the root cap initial cells. The root cap initials and their immediate derivatives show few dictyosomes, little endoplasmic reticulum, plastids lacking starch, and few vacuoles. As the cells age they increase in size and show increasing vacuolation. Plastids increase by division and accumulate large starch grains. Throughout the root cap, amyloplasts maintain a random orientation in the cell. Endoplasmic reticulum also becomes more abundant as the cells age. In older cells, hypertrophied dictyosomes are evident and cell wall material begins accumulating between the distal cell wall and the plasmalemma. Wall thickening progresses with age though radial walls remain largely unthickened. Vacuolation progresses and is followed by complete senescence leaving only the cell walls.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 513
Author(s):  
Ewen Silvester ◽  
Annaleise R. Klein ◽  
Kerry L. Whitworth ◽  
Ljiljana Puskar ◽  
Mark J. Tobin

Environmental contextSphagnum moss is a widespread species in peatlands globally and responsible for a large fraction of carbon storage in these systems. We used synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy to characterise the acid-base properties of Sphagnum moss and the conditions under which calcium uptake can occur (essential for plant tissue integrity). The work allows a chemical model for Sphagnum distribution in the landscape to be proposed. AbstractSphagnum is one the major moss types responsible for the deposition of organic soils in peatland systems. The cell walls of this moss have a high proportion of carboxylated polysaccharides (polygalacturonic acids), which act as ion exchangers and are likely to be important for the structural integrity of the cell walls. We used synchrotron light source infrared microspectroscopy to characterise the acid-base and calcium complexation properties of the cell walls of Sphagnum cristatum stems, using freshly sectioned tissue confined in a flowing liquid cell with both normal water and D2O media. The Fourier transform infrared spectra of acid and base forms are consistent with those expected for protonated and deprotonated aliphatic carboxylic acids (such as uronic acids). Spectral deconvolution shows that the dominant aliphatic carboxylic groups in this material behave as a monoprotic acid (pKa=4.97–6.04). The cell wall material shows a high affinity for calcium, with a binding constant (K) in the range 103.9–104.7 (1:1 complex). The chemical complexation model developed here allows for the prediction of the chemical environment (e.g. pH, ionic content) under which Ca2+ uptake can occur, and provides an improved understanding for the observed distribution of Sphagnum in the landscape.


1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1703-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Jung ◽  
K. P. Vogel

Weed Science ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter E. Splittstoesser

Barley (Hordeum vulgareL. var. Trail) root growth was inhibited at lower concentrations of 1-(2-methylcyclohexyl)-3-phenylurea (siduron) than was shoot growth. The influence of siduron upon root metabolism was assessed with excised roots grown in 0 or 5 ppm siduron. More glucose-U-14C and leucine-U-14C were degraded to CO2and less were incorporated into cell wall material and protein by roots grown in siduron. However, roots grown in siduron incorporated more adenine-8-14C into nucleic acids and degraded less adenine to CO2than roots grown in water. It was suggested that siduron disrupted the normal nucleic acid metabolism of barley roots which was necessary for protein and cell wall synthesis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 289 ◽  
pp. 110304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eden Eran Nagar ◽  
Liora Berenshtein ◽  
Inbal Hanuka Katz ◽  
Uri Lesmes ◽  
Zoya Okun ◽  
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