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Colchicine treatment ofFunaria caulonemata, usually does not inhibit initiation of a side branch or its incipient elongation but does prevent movement of chloroplasts and the nucleus into the outgrowth. After colchicine and after cytochalasin B treatment side branches are formed about at the normal age of the cells; because of the inhibition of the apical cell they arise at an abnormal position,i.e., not in the third but in the second cell of a filament. After D2O treatment the organelles are dislocated toward the basal cross wall. The site of side branch formation is then obviously determined by the position of the nucleus. Cells with an irreversibly reversed longitudinal polar axis can be found; by centrifugation in proximal direction the sites of side branch initiation likewise are displaced into the proximal region of the cell, especially if the remigration of the nucleus is inhibited by colchicine. High concentrations of Ca2+ ions induce the formation of “side branch cells”, without any outgrowth. The calcium ionophore A 23 187 influences the position of the nucleus and of the side branch only slightly. After these various treatments intercalary divisions frequently occur. The role and interrelationship of the nucleus and peripheral cytoplasm in establishing and maintaining the polar axes, and the role of microtubules are discussed.
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Schmiedel, G., Schnepf, E. Side branch formation and orientation in the caulonema of the moss,Funaria hygrometrica: Experiments with inhibitors and with centrifugation. Protoplasma 101, 47–59 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01293434
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