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Deposits, believed to contain calcium, were located in different cells of the potato tuber after using an antimonate procedure. In the starch-storage parenchyma of the medulla and cortex antimonate deposits were abundant within vacuoles, on the tonoplast, and to a lesser extent in cell walls. Phloem tissues contained a high concentration of deposits, mainly within companion cells and phloem parenchyma, consistent sites of deposition being mitochondria, plastids and tonoplasts. Deposits were abundant within vacuoles of cells of the xylem parenchyma. Within vessel elements deposits were limited to the surface of secondary wall thickenings. Antimonate deposits associated with the middle lamella of xylem parenchyma were rarely found. The results are discussed in relation to previous findings for potato tubers and for higher plant cells in general.
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Oparka, K.J., Davies, H.V. Subcellular localisation of calcium in potato tubers. Potato Res 31, 297–304 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02365538
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