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Journal of Cell Science, Vol 49, Issue 1 261-272, Copyright © 1981 by Company of Biologists
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JM Picton and MW Steer
Pollen tubes of Tradescantia were grown in vitro and exposed to 0.3 microgram/ml cytochalasin D for 5 or 10 min. Fine-structural observations revealed no visible effect of the drug on the organelles. Stereological analysis, using a method recently developed by Rose (1980) to obtain sphere size-distributions corrected for section thickness, revealed substantial increase in the number of secretory vesicles present in the cytoplasm around the dictyosomes. Equating the rate of vesicle accumulation with the rate of vesicle production, a total of 5388 vesicles per minute are formed by a growing tube. This corresponds to 2.4 vesicles per minute per dictyosome, and a turnover rate of 3.7 min for a single dictyosome cisterna, or about 15-18.5 min for a complete dictyosome. The calculated vesicle production rate agrees well with that required to sustain the observed growth rate of such tubes, based on the addition of membrane or wall material to the tube tip.
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