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Quantitative electron micrograph analytical techniques were used to study cytological changes associated with the process of dedifferentiation and redifferentiation in mature, specialized cells of the stipe in the brown algaSargassum filipendula following wounding. Early cytological changes associated with this process appear to be those involved with formation of a protective layer of material at the wound surface. An increase in the volume of cytoplasm occupied by mitochondria, dictyosomes, and type A and B vesicles was evident by three days postwound. Cytoplasmic volume occupied by chloroplasts decreased during the early stages of wound reaction while the development of internal membranes (thylakoids) in these organelles increased. Cells at the cut surface eventually differentiated into one of two types of tissues: 1. A wound surface epidermal layer similar in cytological aspect to the epidermal layers of the intact and regenerated plant. 2. A meristematic “regeneration bud” from which developed the blade-like regeneration growth. The morphology and anatomy of the tissues of the regeneration blade resembled those of the blade of the intact plant rather than those of the stipe from which it originated. Percent difference values were obtained by comparing cytological features of the tissues from the regeneration blade with those of the intact stipe and blade. The comparisons supported previously obtained data indicating that the regeneration blade should be considered as a typical blade organ rather than a morphological variant of the stipe. Results of this study raises questions about possible physiological differences which may exist between stipe and blade organs in this plant.
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Fagerberg, W.R., Dawes, C.J. Studies onSargassum II. Quantitative ultrastructural changes in differentiated stipe cells during wound regeneration and regrowth. Protoplasma 92, 211–227 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01279459
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