Electron Microscope Study of the Relationship between the Nucleus and Mitochondria in Chlorophytum capense (L.) Kuntze

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Electron microscope studies of tips of aerial roots of Chlorophytum capense (L.) Kuntze showed the formation in the nucleus of a large number of invaginations, in which mitchondria accumulate. These mitochondria are seen in many cases attached to the nuclear membrane, which appears destroyed at the point of attachment, as if the mitochondrion were exchanging some substances with the nucleus or were being absorbed by the nucleus. This phenomenon can conceivably be a mechanism to transfer ATP and possibly other substances from the mitochondria to the nucleus.