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Distribution of Plasmodesmata in Leaves. A Comparison of Cananga Odorata with Other Species Using Different Measures of Plasmodesmatal Frequency

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The functioning of plasmodesmata, the cytoplasmic channels connecting adjacent plant cells, may be considered at two levels of organization: the individual and the collective. Of course the first level involves studies of plasmodesmata as single units, and is treated elsewhere in this volume. The second involves plasmodesmatal frequency, or the numbers of plasmodesmata in relation to some physical parameter of the interconnected cells or surrounding cells and tissues. It is this collective level of organization which will be discussed here.

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  1. Department of Botany, University of Hawaii - Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    David G. Fisher

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  1. Institute for Applied Biology, The University of York, Y01 5DD, York, UK

    A. W. Robards

  2. Department of Botany, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    W. J. Lucas

  3. Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Wolfson Laboratory for Molecular Pathology, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, G61 1BD, Bearsden, Glasgow, UK

    J. D. Pitts

  4. Department of Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. J. Jongsma

  5. Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Ave, 10461, Bronx, NY, USA

    D. C. Spray

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Fisher, D.G. (1990). Distribution of Plasmodesmata in Leaves. A Comparison of Cananga Odorata with Other Species Using Different Measures of Plasmodesmatal Frequency. In: Robards, A.W., Lucas, W.J., Pitts, J.D., Jongsma, H.J., Spray, D.C. (eds) Parallels in Cell to Cell Junctions in Plants and Animals. NATO ASI Series, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83971-9_14

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