Ultrastructure of plastids of Eleutherococcus senticosus (Araliaceae) epithelial cells in shoot secretory canals
Kolalite, M.R.; Ivanova, A.N.; Yakovleva, O.V.
Rastitel' nye Resursy 41(3): 40-45
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-9946
Accession: 004375504
Secretory canals were present in all the vegetative organs of E. senticosus. Epithelial cells differed from adjacent parenchyma cells by the presence of developed leucoplastidom that occupied up to 50% of the cytoplasm volume. Leucoplasts were of complex spatial configuration and contained various inclusions occupying almost 80% of the plastid section: large spheres with a fine-grain structure, starch grains, small opaque plastoglobuli, and bigger plastoglobuli of moderate electron density.