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In addition to the highly differentiated lamellar chloroplasts and bundle sheath plastids, the normal mature maize leaf contains six relatively less differentiated but distinctive minor types of plastid associated with vascular and epidermal tissues.
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Paper No. 1547 from the Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
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Williams, E. Fine structure of vascular and epidermal plastids of the mature maize leaf. Protoplasma 79, 395–400 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276614
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