Herbicide Resistant Weeds

Quantitative comparison of chloroplast ultrastructure in mesophyll cells of triazine resistant and triazine sensitive Amaranthus retroflexus L. plants.

Kutik, J. and E. Bergmannova. 1991. Quantitative comparison of chloroplast ultrastructure in mesophyll cells of triazine resistant and triazine sensitive Amaranthus retroflexus L. plants. Biologia Plantarum. 33: 510-512 + .

Ultrastructural comparisons by transmission electron microscopy of greenhouse-grown triazine-resistant and -susceptible A. retroflexus, collected from the same location in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, revealed that the chloroplasts of the former were larger and contained a smaller proportion (v/v) of starch but a larger proportion of stacked thylakoids and plastoglobules relative to the chloroplasts of the susceptible plants.