BMC Plant Biology

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New insights into the tonoplast architecture of plant vacuoles and vacuolar dynamics during osmotic stress

Daniel Reisen1,2, Francis Marty1 and Nathalie Leborgne-Castel1*

Author Affiliations

1 UMR PME INRA/CNRS/Université de Bourgogne BP 47870, boulevard Gabriel, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France

2 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 321 Biotechnology Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

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BMC Plant Biology 2005, 5:13 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-5-13

Published: 4 August 2005

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Cellular tomogram through two overlapping BobTIP26-1::gfp expressing cells.

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Animation of 3-D reconstructed vacuoles. The reconstructed vacuoles from Figure 3d were rotated. Notice chloroplasts (red) on the outer sides of the vacuoles, within transvacuolar strands and the cells' peripheries.

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Cellular tomogram through a protoplast with a GFP-labeled tonoplast. The protoplast was prepared from BobTIP26-1::gfp expressing cells as previously described [17].

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Cellular tomogram through a plasmolysed cell demonstrating the intact tonoplast structure and its folding. The tonoplast fluoresces in green. Hechtian strands are not labeled. Bar = 5 μm.

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Plasmolysis-deplasmolysis cycle of cells bathed with 0.5 M sorbitol. Time is marked at the bottom left; changes of media are given at the top left (10 min: + 0.5 M sorbitol; 23.5 min: + normal MS medium). Bar = 20 μm.

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