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  2. Phragmosome - Wikipedia

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    The phragmosome is a sheet of cytoplasm forming in highly vacuolated plant cells in preparation for mitosis. [1] In contrast to animal cells, plant cells often contain large central vacuoles occupying up to 90% of the total cell volume and pushing the nucleus against the cell wall. In order for mitosis to occur, the nucleus has to move into the ...

  3. Acid-growth hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Within the 20-year timespan, many scientists have actively contributed to examining and reevaluating Hager's acid-growth hypothesis. Despite the accumulation of observations that evidently identify the final target of the auxin-induced action to be H +-ATPase, which excretes H + protons to the apoplast and take in K + ions through its rectifying K + channel in the following years, the ...

  4. Plant cell - Wikipedia

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    Structure of a plant cell. Plant cells are the cells present in green plants, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.Their distinctive features include primary cell walls containing cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectin, the presence of plastids with the capability to perform photosynthesis and store starch, a large vacuole that regulates turgor pressure, the absence of flagella or ...

  5. Somatic embryogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Somatic embryogenesis is an artificial process in which a plant or embryo is derived from a single somatic cell. [1] Somatic embryos are formed from plant cells that are not normally involved in the development of embryos, i.e. ordinary plant tissue. No endosperm or seed coat is formed around a somatic embryo.

  6. Cytorrhysis - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of typical plant cell. Cytorrhysis is the permanent and irreparable damage to the cell wall after the complete collapse of a plant cell due to the loss of internal positive pressure (hydraulic turgor pressure). [1] Positive pressure within a plant cell is required to maintain the upright structure of the cell wall. [1]

  7. Expansin - Wikipedia

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    Expansins characteristically cause wall stress relaxation and irreversible wall extension (). [15] This process is essential for cell enlargement. Expansins are also expressed in ripening fruit where they function in fruit softening, [16] and in grass pollen, [7] where they loosen stigmatic cell walls and aid pollen tube penetration of the stigmain germinating seeds for cell wall disassembly ...

  8. Casparian strip - Wikipedia

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    The cytoplasm of the endodermal cell is firmly attached to the Casparian strip so that it does not readily separate from the strip when the cells are subjected to contraction of the protoplasts. At the root, the Casparian strip is embedded within the cell wall of endodermal cells in the non-growing region of the root behind the root tip. [10]

  9. Plant embryonic development - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] These two cells are very different, and give rise to different structures, establishing polarity in the embryo. apical cell The small apical cell is on the top and contains most of the cytoplasm, the aqueous substance found within cells, from the original zygote. [11] It gives rise to the hypocotyl, shoot apical meristem, and ...