TY  - JA
AU  - Orsenigo,M.
AU  - Rascio,N.
TI  - Chloroplast fine structure in the japonica-2 maize mutant exposed to continuous illumination: 1 The green tissues
SN  - 0011-4529
PY  - 1976///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Chloroplasts
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Finestructure
KW  - Maize
KW  - Mutants
KW  - Lighting
KW  - Tissue
KW  - Mesophyll
KW  - Thylakoids
KW  - Membranes
KW  - Starch
KW  - Biological development
N2  - Exposure to continuous illumination causes the appearance of numerous plastoglobuli in the stroma of both the mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts of the green tissues of the leaves of the japonica-2 mutant of maize. In the pale green tissues the thylakoids have markedly swollen membranes. Another feature of the plastids exposed to continuous illumination is the heavy accumulation of starch. The japonica-2 chloroplasts show a different sensitivity to light, the chloroplasts of the pale green tissues being affected more markedly than the ones of the dark green tissues, and the bundle sheath chloroplasts more than those of the mesophyll. The effects of continuous illumination may be interpreted as an acceleration of chloroplast ontogenesis
T2  - Cytobios
ER  -