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Topic 4 - Specific organelles of the plant cell Flashcards

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Plant specifications

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  1. Cell wall
  2. Non-living cells are part of the body
  3. Tiny connections between cells (plasmodesmata) - all cells interconnected
  4. Plastids
  5. Vacuoles
  6. Inclusions
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Cell size

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Micrometer (bacteria) 
↓
Millimeter (nettle hair) 
↓
centimeter (hemp fibers)
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Cellular compartments

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Surrounded with a double phospholipid membrane, differences in function, interaction

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Cell membranes

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Function: separation and transport

Double phospholipid layer
Unit membrane hypothesis → fluid mosaic membrane
Plasma membrane (plasmalemma), tonoplast (vacuoles)

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Function of membrane proteins

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Receptor proteins
Channel proteins
Carrier protein
Transport proteins
Filaments of cytoskeleton
pH regulation (vacuoles) 
Excretion (dictyosome)
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The cytoplasm

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Cytosol and cytoskeleton

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Cytosol

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o	Soluble proteins
o	RNA
o	Water
o	Ions
o	Caarbohydrates
o	Fatty acids
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Cytoskeleton

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Spiral protein filaments
Mechanical resistance, migration of cell organelles
Play role in cell

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Plant specific organelles

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The vacuole system
Plastids
The cell wall 
Incrustations
Adcrustations
Plasmodesmata
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The vacuole system

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A Chamber bounded with tonoplast membrane storing solid or fluid compounds and gases

Minor importance in animal cells

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Provacuole

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Vesicles or ER and dictyosomes

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Central vacuole

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Three provacuoles fused into a larger one

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Major functions of the vacuole system

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Storage (isolating materials)
Cell lysis
Maintaining hydrostatic pressure (tugor) and pH
Dispersal 
Protection
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Types of vacuoles

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Lysosomes
Vegetative (storage) vacuoles
Inclusions
Crystals

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Lysosomes (vacuole)

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Thick membrane

Hyrdolytic enzymes in the middle - autophage

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Vegetative (storage) vacuoles

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Diluted water solution, mildly acidic pH 5-6
Ions (e.g. high salt habitats)
By-products (important products for plant life: essenctial oils, paints, flavours)
Waste products (e.g.: glycosides, alkaloids)
Nutrient storage (protein, carbohydrates)

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Inclusions

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o Non constant, but not essential substances
o No metabolic activity, no membranes
o Protein inclusions: in pulse grains or aleurone layer, globoid or chrystalloid forms homogeneous/heterogeneous
o Carbohydrate inclusions: mainly starch
o Oil inclusions: small droplets of oil in the cytoplasm

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Crystals

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o Accumulation of inorganic compounds
o Oxalates, carbonates, silicates
o Digestion problems, irritation

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Plastids

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Assimilation, synthesizing metabolic processes, storage functions
Double phospholipid layer, chloroplast DNA
Coloured plastids: chloro- and chromoplastids
Colourless plastids: leucoplastids
Originated from prokaryotes

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Development of plastids

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Plastid initial (meristematic cell) → proplastid

Etioplastid: in cotyledons and plants have not been exposed to sunlight

Light → chloroplastid, synthesis of membrane proteins and pigments

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Types of plastids

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Leucoplastid
Chromoplastids
Chloroplastids

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Leucoplastid

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Colourless plastids in organs not exposed to sunlight

Storage function

The plant uses stored nutrients and plastids can turn into green ones (potato)

Globular or fusiform shape

23
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Types of leucoplastids

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Amiloplastids - starch
Elaioplastids - oil, fatty acids
Proteinoplastids - protein

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Amiloplastids

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Starch

In ground tissues, roots, modified stems, endosperm of seeds
Chrystalline center (hilum) → amorphous and crystalline regions
Simple and compound starch
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Elaioplastids

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Oil, fatty acids

Stored nutrients in different organs
Essential for germination
Drying (linseed, poppy), semi-drying (sunflower) and non-drying (castor bean) oils

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Proteinoplastids

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Protein

Simple or compound
In modified stems, seeds

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Chromoplastids

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Originated from proplastids or amiloplastids or chloroplastids (ripening, ageing leaves)

Less developed inner membranes

Carotenoid pigments: carotene, xanthophylls

Globular, fibrillary or crystalline forms

In flowers, fruits, leaves, roots

Pollination, dispersal

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Chloroplastids

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Thylakodis

Stroma

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Structure and function of thylakodis

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Outer membrane similar to cell membrane

Photosystems: integral proteins and pigments

Electron transport chain: proteins

ATP and NADPH production photosynthesis (light dependent reactions)

30
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Compounds and functions of stroma

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RuBisCO enzyme (protein complex)

Photosynthesis (light independent reaction) – production of glucose and intermediate products

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Plastids of C3 and C4 plants

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For C4 plants mesophyll cells has a granum structure, but it’s absent form the bundle-sheath cells

32
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the cell wall

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Similar in fungi cell but with different composition

Importance in everyday life
    Woods
    Fibers
    Cooking quality
    Nutrients
    Cell wall proteins - hay fever
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Major functions of the cell wall

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Protection (environmental stress, pathogens, water loss)
Gives a definite shape
Enables transport information to the exterior
Helps in osmotic-regulation, prevents water loss
Transport processes
Ion exchange, mineral uptake (root hairs)

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Skeletal substances in the cell wall

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Cellulose

1,4 linked ß-D-glucose chain
Synthesised by the rosette enzyme of the plasma membrane

Primary cell wall
Web of microfibrils + auxin → loosened structure, formation of new fibrils → increasing cell wall surface

Secondary cell wall
New transverse layers of cellulose fibrils (increased strength)

Cellulase enzymes → decomposition of cell wall (secretory ducts, transport vessels)

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Matrix substances

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Pectins (soluble fiber) – linear chain of galacturonic acid polymers: high proportion in fruits and storage organs

Hemicellulose (glucose chain + oligosaccharides): cross-link between pectins and cellulose (e.g. arabinoxylan)

Proteins
Soluble (hydrolitic enzymes, peroxidases)
Insoluble (= extensins) – web-like structure

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Incrustations

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Lignin (wood)
Suberin (cork)
Pigments
Mucilage - storage of water, gelling effect
Inorganic compounds - in plant hairs → irritation

37
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Lignin

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Phenolic polymers consists of
Coumaryl alcohol
Coniferyl alcohol
Sinapyl alcohol

Mainly in the secondary wall (lignification)
Increase rigidity
Decrease digestibility

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Suberin

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Polymers of aromatic and aliphatic compounds
Waterproof layer, decreasing evaporation
Decreasing digestibility

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Adcrustations

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On cell wall surface
Wax, cutie
Water insulators, decreasing evaporation

40
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Plasmodesmata

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Channels traverse the cell walls - smooth ER tubes and protein filaments
Direct transport between cells
Large number in young cells, later decreasing abundance

41
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The secondary wall

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After the end of cell growth

Generally in mature cells with no cytoplasm (e.g.: fibers)

Increasing amount of incrustations decreasing digestibility

42
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Outer (centrifugal) thickening

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In case of spores and pollens

Spikes, grains, appendages

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Inner (centripetal) thickening

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Strengthening, protection (e.g.: transport tissues)

Total – complete cell wall (sclerenchyma)

Local – some part of a cell wall (e.g.: tracheids)

Partial – some of the cell wall (collenchyma)

General – whole cell wall except plasmodesmata

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