A highlightedly improved method for isolating and characterizing calcium oxalate crystals from tubercles of Mammillaria schumannii.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Calcium oxalate (CaOx) is the most prevalent and widespread biomineral in plants and is involved in protective and/or defensive functions against abiotic stress factors. It is, however, expected that this function has an extremely significant contribution to growth processes in plants bearing large amounts of CaOx, such as cacti growing in desert environment.

Results

In our research, small-sized CaOx crystals (≤ 20 µm) with tetrahedral or spherical shapes were observed to dominate in each epidermal and cortical cell from the tubercles of Mammillaria schumannii, a species from the Cereoideae subfamily, having tubercles (main photosynthetic organs) united with adjacent ones almost into ridges on its stem. Because they have potential significant functions, differenti

SUBMITTER: Li C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10680252 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature