Table 1.
Cell size (length, L, and width, W), thickness of cell walls, size of chloroplasts for mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells, and the number of plasmodesmata in the cell wall between M and BS cells
| Stage of development | Cell size (μm) | Thickness of individual cell wall towards the IAS (μm) | No. of plasmodesmata per μm M/BS cell wall | Chloroplast length (μm) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | BS | M | BS | M | BS | ||||
| L | W | L | W | ||||||
| Cleome angustifolia | |||||||||
| 1 | 12.5±0.5 a | 9.1±0.5 b | 12.5±0.3 a | 9.7±0.7 a | ND | ND | ND | 1.5±0.07 a | 1.6±0.06 a |
| 2 | 15.4±0.2 b | 5.4±0.3 a | 16.4±0.4 b | 11.1±0.6 a | 0.12±0.009 a | 0.23±0.01 a | 0.53±0.12 a | 1.5±0.08 a | 2.3±0.1 a |
| 3 | 20.3±0.2 c | 4.9±0.2 a | 19.6±0.5 b | 13.1±0.4 b | 0.12±0.02 a | 0.27±0.01 b | 1.25±0.16 b | 2.3±0.08 b | 3.0±0.08 b |
| 4 | 35.6±1.0 d | 8.5±0.4 b | 27.1±0.7 c | 15.6±1.1 c | 0.14±0.006 a | 0.28±0.01 b | 1.1±0.14 b | 5.6±0.2 c | 4.8±0.2 c |
| Cleome gynandra | |||||||||
| 1 | 10.3±0.3 a | 6.6±0.3 a | 9.7±0.3 a | 10.8±0.6 a | ND | ND | ND | 2.5±0.1 a | 2.4±0.1 a |
| 2 | 16.0±0.6 b | 6.7±0.3 a | 13.6±0.5 b | 15.3±0.9 b | 0.08±0.01 a | 0.21±0.02 a | 1.11±0.09 a | 3.5±0.2 a | 3.8±0.2 b |
| 3 | 19.1±0.6 c | 6.4±0.2 a | 15.7±0.5 b | 15.1±1.0 b | 0.10±0.01 a | 0.30±0.02 b | 0.88±0.17 a | 4.6±0.1 b | 5.1±0.2 c |
| 4 | 21.5±0.6 d | 6.5±0.2 a | 18.8±0.6 c | 17.9±0.8 b | 0.10±0.006 a | 0.43±0.02 c | 0.81±0.09 a | 5.6±0.2 c | 7.1±0.2 d |
The average number of partial cell profiles examined was 20.
Different letters indicate significant differences between developmental stages in a column for each species separately, at P≤0.05.