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Life Cycle and Supplementary Comments on the Light Microscopic Morphology of Nannochioris eucaryota
Author(s) -
TschermakWoess Elisabeth
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.871
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1438-8677
pISSN - 1435-8603
DOI - 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1999.tb00246.x
Subject(s) - biology , cytokinesis , chloroplast , morphology (biology) , bending , biophysics , electron microscope , botany , optics , cell , materials science , physics , cell division , paleontology , composite material , biochemistry , gene
Light microscopic characteristics of the extremely small cells of Nannochioris eucaryota allow distinction from other similar or related chlorophycean species. These characteristics are the already well known spherical to slightly ellipsoidal cell form, the form of the chloroplast (being a thick band or plate bending along the cell wall), the presence of oil droplets, the absence of crystalloid bodies, the mode of cytokinesis which starts excentrically, and the peculiarities of cell walls in the course of autosporulation. The nature of two peculiarly located grains within the chloroplasts (possibly of starch) needs electron microscopical verification.