1968/07/01 by William J. Vail, Virgil G. Lilly, Virgil Greene Lilly · 5 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Chemistry · Energy · Materials Science · #Algal biology and biofuel production #Biochemistry #Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology #Biology #Biophysics #Botany #Carotenoid #Cell #Cell wall #Chemistry #Chromatography #Diatoms and Algae Research #Electron microscope #Optics #Pigment #Sonication #Stain #Staining
paper · doi:10.1080/00275514.1968.12018646
published in Mycologia 60(4), 902-907 (Taylor & Francis)
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SUMMARYLight-grown cells of Dacryopinax spathularia contained almost eight times the concentration of carotenoid pigments as did dark-grown cells. That the highest concentration of pigments occurred in the cell walls was demonstrated by a cytological study employing antimony trichloride as a stain, and by analysis of cell fractions following sonication and differential sedimentation. Electron microscopy showed that the cell walls of light-grown cells were between 1.5 and 1.9 times as thick as those of dark-grown cells.