Occurrence of Lomasomes in Mesophyll Cells of ‘Khapli’ Wheat

Abstract

Moore and McAlear coined the name ‘lomasome’ (λωμα—border; σωμα—body) to describe the sponge-like structures which they observed between the cell walls and plasmalemmas in the hyphae of several species of fungi under the electron microscope. They considered that lomasomes were characteristic of, and peculiar to, the fungi and suggested that they might be of potential value in determining the phylogenetic origin of the Eumycota. This appears to be unlikely since we have found apparently identical structures in the mesophyll cells of wheat, Triticum dicoccum var. ‘Khapli’.