Abstract
ComparingFunaria protonema tip cells of different age and of experimentally modified growth rate (by changing the light-dark-regime, by application of colchicine and of D2O and by plasmolysis) we found that the site and intensity of growth are related closely to the distribution and frequency of particle rosettes in the PF of the plasma membrane. The results confirm previous suggestions that the rosettes are involved in cellulose fibril formation and that they have a rather short life time (about 10–15 minutes,Reiss et al. 1984). The appearance of rosettes seems to depend on the exocytosis of Golgi vesicle containing wall matrix material. Morphometric calculations suggest that each Golgi vesicle may incorporate one rosette into the plasmalemma in caulonema tip cells.
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