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Provedor de dados: | Acta Botanica Brasilica
País: | Brazil
Título: | Silicon location through backscattered electron imaging and X-ray microanalysis in leaves of Cyperus ligularis L. and Rhynchospora aberrans C. B. Clarke (Cyperaceae)
Autores: | Estelita,Maria Emília Maranhão; Rodrigues,Ana Claudia.
Data: | 2012-06-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Stomata; Epidermal cells; Trichomes; Cell walls.
Resumo: | The Cyperaceae show the ability to incorporate silicon by depositing colloidal silica, which is recorded by the occurrence of projections in the form of cones, in inner tangential walls of some epidermal cells or "silica cells". Leaves of C. ligularis and R. aberrans were analyzed through the technique of electron backscatter. Cyperus ligularis accumulates silica, in addition to "silica cells", in some stomata, trichomes and the cell walls that surround the cavities of the aerenchyma. The silica in the latter occurs in various forms; however, the cells located near the vascular bundles have conical projections, similar to those of the epidermis. Rhynchospora aberrans presents "silica cells" whose projections have tapered "satellites". In this species, silica also occurs in stomata and certain epidermal cells adjacent to them. It appears that the silicon deposition occurs in combination with the wall (with no apparent structural changes), and structures of secretion, or projections of the wall. These structural changes in the species, and location, are probably related to functional and environmental factors, especially the soil, in addition to relation with taxonomic groups.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062012000200004
Editor: | Sociedade Botânica do Brasil
Relação: | 10.1590/S0102-33062012000200004
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Acta Botanica Brasilica  v.26 n.2 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess