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Structural and ultrastructural changes occurring in the living cells of young plants ofPinus halepensis Mill. artificially infected withMatsucoccus josephi Bodenheimer et Harpaz, were studied. The study revealed that, opposite the places of attachment of the insects to the stem, groups of enlarged cells occurred in the cortex and often also in the phloem and cambial zones. In the enlarged cortical parenchyma cells there was a pronounced increase in the volume of the cytoplasm. The nuclei were large and lobed. The ER appeared in two forms, in very long cisternae arranged in parallel, and in short variously oriented tubules. The plastids were without grana, contained a tubular network and many plastoglobuli. Mitochondria and dictyosomes were relatively numerous. The function of the hypertrophic cells is discussed.
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Chessen, G., Fahn, A. Cell hypertrophy in stems ofPinus halepensis infested byMatsucoccus josephi . Protoplasma 143, 111–117 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01291155
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