Ultrastructural changes in shoot apex cells of winter wheat seedlings during ice encasement
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 56 (7), 786-794
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b78-090
Abstract
The decline in viability of cold-hardy Kharkov winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings during ice encasement at −1 °C was accompanied by characteristic ultrastructural changes. A dramatic increase in endoplasmic reticulum was observed within a few days. This proliferation of endoplasmic reticulum often resulted in the formation of an elaborate series of parallel membranes, either dispersed randomly throughout the cytoplasm or in the form of concentric whorls. However, the structural integrity of many cellular organelles was largely unaffected even by prolonged ice encasement resulting in death of the plants. In contrast, exposure of cold-hardy seedlings to near lethal, subfreezing temperature resulted in severe disorganization of cellular organelles. Ice encasement of nonhardened seedlings resulted in complete kill within 4 h. After 16 h ice encasement, occasional concentric whorls of endoplasmic reticulum and copious amounts of osmiophilic material were observed in the cytoplasm. Upon removal of the ice encasement stress, the accumulated endoplasmic reticulum disappeared rapidly during recovery at either2 or20 °C.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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