Photosynthetic Reactions in the Marine Alga Codium vermilara: II. Structural Studies

Plant Physiol. 1975 May; 55(5): 899–905.

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Photosynthetic Reactions in the Marine Alga Codium vermilara

II. Structural Studies

Yehuda Ben-Shaul, Mordechay Schönfeld, and Joseph Neumann

Tel Aviv University, Department of Botany, The George S. Wise Center for Life Sciences, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Abstract

Chloroplasts from Codium vermilara, isolated by relatively crude methods, are able to fix CO₂ at rates comparable to the rates of intact plants. Sections in thalli of Codium vermilara show that the chloroplasts are surrounded by a thin layer of cytoplasm. This surrounding layer of cytoplasm, is retained also in isolated chloroplasts, and presumably preserves the intactness of the chloroplast envelope.

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