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Coated vesicles occur in differentiating cotton fibres during primary and secondary wall formation. The coated vesicles are often associated with the plasmalemma, or with membranes at the secreting face of dictyosomes, corresponding positionally to GERL. During secondary wall formation the number of dictyosome-associated coated vesicles seems to be smaller than during primary wall formation. When sections are stained for periodateoxidizable polysaccharides (Thiéry reaction) the membrane of plasmalemma-associated coated vesicles is intensely stained. The membrane of dictyosome-associated coated vesicles is only weakly stained. On the basis of the present evidence it is not possible to clearly decide, whether the staining in plasmalemma-associated coated vesicles is due to obliquely cut membrane or to vesicle contents. The vesicle coat material is not stained. Possible functions of coated vesicles in differentiating cotton fibres are discussed.
Vesicles with contents positively stained with the Thiéry reaction are observed only during primary wall formation. The membrane of these vesicles is smooth and seems to bud from the same cisternae, probably GERL, as do the coated vesicles. During secondary wall formation no vesicles containing periodate-oxidizable polysaccharides could be detected, even under conditions that result in a strong, specific reaction in the cellulosic secondary wall. In some instances polysaccharidic material, resembling secondary wall material, has been seen to adhere to the outside of the plasmalemma. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that, in higher plants, at least part of primary wall material may already be synthesized in dictyosome vesicles, whereas cellulose biosynthesis occurs at the cell surface.
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Ryser, U. Cotton fibre differentiation: Occurrence and distribution of coated and smooth vesicles during primary and secondary wall formation. Protoplasma 98, 223–239 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01281441
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