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The problem of Golgi material in plant cells

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    The methods commonly used to demonstrate Golgi bodies have been metallic impregnation with osmic acid or silver nitrate and vital staining, usually with neutral red.

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    Using these methods investigators have identified the following principal types of Golgi material in plant cells: osmiophilic platelets, the vacuome, small scattered globules, the cortex of the contractile vacuoles, and plastids.

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    Depending upon the methods used to demonstrate it, the Golgi material has been assumed to be a lipoid, a protein, or an acidic aqueous solution. Other evidence indicated that probably none of these was entirely correct.

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    Functions which were assigned by different investigators to structures which they identified as Golgi bodies in plants included:a) secretion of the limosphere of moss androcytes;b) secretion of enzymes involved in photosynthesis;c) contributions to the formation of sterigmata and basidiospores;d) osmo-regulation in flagellates; ande) storage of food.

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    The vacuome-Golgi hypothesis was withdrawn by Guilliermond in 1935. The osmiophilic platelet hypothesis is still upheld by a few investigators. The majority of recent studies of plant cytology have not included Golgi bodies as morphological entities.

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I wish to express my appreciation to The New York Botanical Garden for permitting me to use its Library facilities in the preparation of this review.

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Nahm, L.J. The problem of Golgi material in plant cells. Bot. Rev 6, 49–72 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02879313

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