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48 hours after interrupting the root stele ofPisum, wound phloem initiated (proximally or distally to the wound) to reconnect the vascular stumps was found to contain some nucleate wound-sieve elements. At the elongating end of an incomplete wound-sieve tube these elements exhibit a sequence of ultrastructural changes as known from protophloem-sieve tubes. Elongation occurs by the addition of newly divided (wound-) sieve-element/companion-cell complexes. In order to dedifferentiate and assume a new specialization formerly quiescent stelar or cortical cells require at least one (mostly more) preliminary division. Companion cells are consequently obligatory sister cells to wound-sieve elements.
By reconstruction using serial sections it could be shown that wound-sieve tubes elongate bidirectionally, starting in an early activated procambial cell of the stele. The elongation is directed by the existence of plasmodesmata, preferably when lying in primary pit fields, and by the plane of preceding divisions. Thus, the developing wound-sieve tube can deviate from the damaged bundle and radiate into the cortex as soon as the plane of the preceding divisions is favourable. In the opposite direction, elongating wound-sieve tubes run parallel to pre-existing phloem traces, thus broading their base at the bundle for the deviating part of the wound-sieve tube. Frequently an individual wound-sieve tube is supplemented at the bundle by a further wound-sieve tube which is partly running parallel to it. Both sieve tubes are interlinked with sieve plates by three-poled sieve elements.
Ultrastructurally, the developmental changes of nucleate wound-sieve elements follow the known pattern. In spite of its contrasting origin and odd shape a mature wound-sieve element eventually has the same contents as regular sieve elements: sieve-element plastids, mitochondria, stacked ER and small amounts of P-protein within an electronlucent cytoplasm.
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Schulz, A. Wound phloem in transition to bundle phloem in primary roots ofPisum sativum L.. Protoplasma 130, 12–26 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01283327
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