Micrographs of chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves
collaboration project with the professors Jean David Rochaix and Michel Goldschmidt
Light micrograph of a cross section in an Arabidopsis th. leaf
Cross section 1 μm thick in a leaf embedded in Epon, made using a diamand knife Histo and stained with toluidin blue.
pp : palissade parenchyma
pl : spongy parenchyma
ep. epidermis
Scale : 100 μm
Comment: on this micrograph the adaxial face should have been reversed.
Transmission Electron Microgrpah of a cell in the mesophyll.
bottom left (squared) : a detail from thylakoids stacked in grana
A Chloroplast at higher magnification with strach grains (a); m : mitochondria
Transmission Electron Micrographs of another chloroplast with details of grana and lipidic globules (g) on the right.
