Dessication and Cell Walls

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Dessication and Cell Walls

#1 Post by DonSchaeffer » Thu Jan 27, 2022 12:31 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcR38ZOXtA
I looked at the cell walls in the leaves of a houseplant found at two stages of dessication (drying out). A leaf dried out to the point of brittleness had very little cell wall structure left. In the other leaf, still flexible, cell wall structure was still essentially normal.

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