Plant Cell Biology: Structure And Function

Page i Plant Cell Biology Structure and Function Brian E. S. Gunning Plant Cell Biology Group and Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science Research School of Biological Sciences Australian National University Canberra, Australia Martin W. Steer Department of Botany University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland www.dnathink.org jingler Page ii Editorial, Sales, and Customer Service Offices Jones and Bartlett Publishers 40 Tall Pine Drive Sudbury, MA 01776 508-443-5000 800-832-0034 Jones and Bartlett Publishers International Barb House, Barb Mews London W67PA England Copyright © 1996 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Cover picture: Cells from wheat root tips, stained to show DNA (blue) and with anti-tubulin to show microtubules (green), imaged by confocal microscopy. From upper left: interphase cortical microtubules, mature preprophase band, metaphase spindle, early phragmoplast, late phragmoplast, cytokinesis almost complete, cortical arrays reinstated after division. See Plates 34 and 37 for further details. This edition is published by arrangement with Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Original copyright © 1996 Gustav Fischer Verlag — ISBN 3-437-20534-X Title of German original: Gunning/Steer, Bildatlas zur Biologie der Pflanzenzelle. 4. Auflage. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Gunnin