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Cortical microtubules in sweet clover columella cells developed in microgravity
E Hilaire1, A Q Paulsen, C S Brown
1Kansas State University, NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Gravitational Biology, Manhattan 66506-4901, USA.
Plant & Cell Physiology
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
Electron micrographs of columella cells from sweet clover seedlings grown and fixed in microgravity revealed longitudinal and cross sectioned cortical microtubules. This is the first report demonstrating the presence and stability of this network in plants in microgravity.