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Ultrastructural surveys, carried out into an olive necrotic maize mutant (Neuffer E 283 B) grown under a 16 hours photoperiod, have shown remarkable morphological alterations in the plastids. Such alterations, affecting both the mesophyll and the bundle sheath plastids, appear to be photodependent. Quite normal etioplasts are present in dark-grown mutant seedlings. Moreover, light appears also to inhibit the overall growth of mutant plants. 12-day-old mutant plants grown under illumination are 4 cm in comparison with the 10 cm of the wild type, while corresponding dark-grown seedlings of both types are 12 cm high.
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Rascio, N., Casadoro, G., Orsenigo, M. et al. Ultrastructural study of an olive necrotic mutant of maize. Protoplasma 105, 241–249 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01279222
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