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Plant bodies are made up of scattered pockets of undifferentiated cells embedded in stem, leaf and root tissues these

e meristems allow the plant to grow indeterminately Plant development is in this way different from the determinate development of animals

1.1 Schematic representation of the body of a typical dicot (Part 2)

1.1 Schematic representation of the body of a typical dicot (Part 3)

1.1 Schematic representation of the body of a typical dicot (Part 4)

1.4 Diagrammatic representation of a plant cell

1.5 (A) The plasma membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, and other endosomes

1.5 (B) Plasma membranes in cells from the meristematic region

1.14 Vesicular traffic along the secretory and endocytotic pathways

15.4 Major structural components of the primary cell wall and their likely arrangement

15.8 Model of cellulose synthesis by a multisubunit complex containing cellulose synthase

15.7 Cellulose synthesis by the cell (Part 2)

15.6 A structural model of a cellulose microfibril (Part 2)

15.6 A structural model of a cellulose microfibril (Part 1)

1.18 (C) Grana stacks and stroma lamellae; (D) Chloroplast

1.18 (A) Chloroplast from a leaf of timothy grass, (Phleum pratense) (18,000)

1.18 (B) The same preparation at higher magnification (52,000)

1.28 A cell plate forming in a maple (Acer) seedling (10,000)

1.31 Plasmodesmata between cells (Part 1)

1.31 Plasmodesmata between cells (Part 2)

What is a Plant Cell?


Letter to the Editor, The Plant Cell 3:331 (1991)

What is a Plant Cell? A Response


Letter to the Editor, The Plant Cell 3:553 (1991)

What is a Plant Cell? Continued ...


Letter to the Editor ..........

What is a Plant Cell? The Last Word


Letter to the Editor .........

The Relationship of Cell and Organism in Vascular Plants


Are cells the building blocks of plant form? D.R. Kaplan and W. Hagemann, BioScience 41:693703 (1991)

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