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IN rice coleoptile cells mitochondria can be formed and preserved without any notable signs of destruction in the absence of molecular oxygen1,3. In this, rice coleoptiles are strikingly different from other plant tissues, whose fine cell organisation is degraded during even a short-term anaerobiosis4–6. In the experiments mentioned, however1–3, the rice seeds were grown from the very beginning under oxygen-free conditions. This excluded not only the possibility of functioning of mitochondria but, probably also, their normal formation. One could therefore suppose that such mitochondria as yeast promitochondria7,8 do not contain all the carriers of the respiratory chain and possess an enhanced resistance to anaerobiosis. High resistance of cell ultrastucture to anoxia could be, on the other hand, secured by intensive energy output through glycolysis.
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01 July 1974
IN the letter "Appearance of unusual mitochondria in rice coleoptiles at conditions of secondary anoxia" by B. B. Vartapetian, I. N. Andreeva and A. L. Kursanov (Nature, 248, 258; 1974) the wrong illustration was published as Fig. Id. The bottom half of Fig. 1 should be: Fig. 1 Ultrastructure of mitochondria in cells of rice roots and coleoptiles in aerobic and anaerobic conditions, a, Root, 9 d after growth in aerobic conditions; b, root, 6 d of aerobic growth, then 3 d of growth in anaerobic conditions; c, colooptile, 9 d of aerobic growth; d, coleoptile, 6 d of aerobic growth, then 5 d of growth in anaerobic conditions.
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VARTAPETIAN, B., ANDREEVA, I. & KURSANOV, A. Appearance of Unusual Mitochrondria in Rice Coleoptiles at Conditions of Secondary Anoxia. Nature 248, 258–259 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/248258a0
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