Stay in Touch—The Cortical ER of Moss Protonemata in Osmotic Stress Situations

Plasmolysis is usually introduced to cell biology students as a tool to illustrate the plasma membrane: hypertonic solutions cause the living protoplast to shrink by osmotic water loss; hence, it detaches from the surrounding cell wall. What happens, however, with the subcellular structures in the c...

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Main Authors: Dominik Harant, Ingeborg Lang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Plants
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/4/421