Some observations sulphate in on barium * Spirogyra D.R. KregerI and H. Boeré Botanisch Laboratorium Laboratorium en Rijksuniversiteit, Ultrastructuurbiologie, voor Groningen SUMMARY The dry weight were is corrected in the present their as a = face A 8.87 material the in of allowed dry-weight the crystallites tion of BaS0 4 of which extension to be Electron 0.9 crystallite latter. The with long p. an in the evidence of the periphery living found were cell and be to of the visible 4 mainly rect- about 0.17 as On p indicated unit and cytoplasm. paper the BaSG has the inter-distances, size an estimation has been made of the crystallites that average width Presumptive at wide occur of an even distribution in the in the has shown It has the form of individual, 0.48 x earlier, preliminary an microscopy crystallographic plane containing concluded, mainly content and in case %. is about 0.3 p. the in Spirogyra, reported A. Generally, they 5.45 = in up to about ranging greatest 4 at 0.4-0.7 and not in the cell wallt. majority size and b the determined protoplasm angular prisms, and variations of BaS0 percentages and cell far axes the as the basis of distance between degree under of accumula- the polarizing microscope. 1. INTRODUCTION In a brief note results of the on of BaS0 occurrence in fungi 4 have experiments some been reported and algae (Kreger 1957) obtained by R. Frey in residues of extraction of fungi (Frey tamination introduced observation made produce X-ray It was diffraction lines 4 the Although were and woods (Ellis is and in unusual, something size of its its to the the BaS0 first in cell walls * Dedicated 4 1950) the was other of dried a con- the hand, Spirogyra could be confirmed. 4, be isolated from the plants, probably particular BaS0 had in certain quantities algae, as crops sulphate, (Robinson like those found in been found before. The not 4 several questions. questions algae, problem, In the isolated by 18(1), Febr. concern which will not and dry first place, one has been 1950) c.s. Spirogyra observation, would like to its role in the life of a form part physical van 1969 Spirogyra and be considered here. it has been noted probably to Professor Dr. G. Acta Bot. Need. in its presence in Other in other would 4 to On samples the BaS0 about the location of the substance in the cells and about the particles. occurrence As algae gave rise therefore, that those of BaS0 actually of barium in instances, 1965), resembling can procedure. Nicolai, E. the determined. occurrence established in other extraction by shown then that BaS0 weight percentages know the by originally that indicating already of the cell in our contents cleaning procedure earlier paper because it from a was that absent suspension of Iterson. 143 D. crushed whereas cells, that cell wall duced Therefore, the by the by lines. Moreover, 4 do to electron as small A research visible this ponds was and reported not were works) note AND here, and will data of the they mainly and those then protoplasm provide con- the wall or or crystallites. examine in the first alcohol. 70% of its visible in the If the by instance, crystals were satisfactory more are fully be discussed earlier work. in connection with Since the latter data the were mentioned in the present paper. at of the Haren-Gr of the works of The water botanical of the gardens of University about 60 u,. and place outdoors. 2.1. Preparation The stored samples in 70% of clean cell were examined ethanol or of were kept in and Hague Delft Groningen. determined and varied in filament thickness from about to cool garden Institute species 165 jj. (water homogeneous filament containers concrete of The at a walls Native walls Clean, native walls blendor until cells and contents beads about 230 the was from living broken cells. diameter. and removal These plasma were separated in a was no all use of on the than a two centrifuge Mickle shaker with slightly samples treated in longer the wall material in which the debris. Not of pieces by shaking Subsequently, centrifuging, of material which obtained containing and then crushed further by repeated washing promoted prepared were suspension a three whole from cell glass to proof were easily This could investigate, to collected from basins of the thickness, 2.1.1. possibility be to METHODS ditches, Technology undertaken was means, details of their distribution in fresh cells. The results of the omitted in the brief Spiro gyra the experimental MATERIAL X-ray diagrams opaque spots. from which wall, procedure. suspected material stored in simplicity, are the were distinct a of the walls. gained by physical its presence in either the these lines techniques, and latter with the something data about the size of the as would open former step results well as along sake of the these revealed tangential plane beads involved in the electron as the to preparations molecule and crystals, concerning in both of them, for the glass heavy a microscope clusive evidence fixation with shaking the observation by chemical extraction of the filaments pro- with reference have fraction from the contradicted, however, BaS0 crystallites particles might Since BaS0 is 4 presence or be could have been removed in the they 2. to obtained with X-ray diagrams KREGER AND H. BOERE present in the protoplasmatic was preparations orientation of the e.g. it This seemed suspension. same R. was collected alkaline could be water fully freed from the latter. 2.1.2. Walls cleaned by extractions Another method started with material stored in heated in 96 144 % ethanol at 60 °C for 1 hour, 70% ethanol. The threads after which the alcohol Acta Bot. Need. was 18(1), were decanted Febr. 1969 BARIUM SULPHATE IN SPIROGYRA and mixture ethanol-acetone replaced by a on reflux for 15 minutes. This of bleaching attained, with 3% NaOH until it KOH or 2.2. Determination of BaSO mixed with dried, added and a free of sulphate, 2 4 The accuracy of this two ner with CaC0 Ca 3 proportion 3 , 1:1 (P0 4)2 In about 2:1. was tative was washed several times with of Na C0 equal quantities 2 17.7 and yield 4 was for standing The 3 and was water warm K C0 2 washing 3 until precipitated by in the same man- respectively and starch and peptone in the each, of BaSQ by treating 16.6 mg of BaS0 4 4 12.0 mg in both was of BaS0 in 4 content the some weeks Spirogyra an cases, the ratio of the two correction factors, dry weights alcohol of BaS0 of the by evaporation in material from 4 and 2/3 stored in alcodissolved in the protoplasm material obtained from the Therefore, dry weight percentages analysis. warm 1916, slightly modified.) determined 10 mg of , and water be corrected for fresh material and for losses to nearly empty bath. Water on a steam HC1 from which BaSQ was The dry weight filament fraction and alcohol had evaporated be accounted for that part of the to alcohol. In flasks g. degree treatment washed with porcelain crucible, a and by mixing MgS0 4 boiled the 70%. the determining the fact had , make 3 to average therefore of hol, procedure samples prepared A further bath gave on a water Artis & Maxwell (After . dependent white. after extraction with melt, dissolved in was addition of H S0 regia then melted with was crucible. The platinum ashed in was aqua to was content after which it evaporated, until neutral. It in material weighed, dry water, repeated, on material. granular 4 The 100 °C at some in which the material light yellow was solution cells, usually still containing 1:1, sometimes was during the 10/7 respectively, quantinearly neutralize each other. 2.3 diffraction and X-ray X-ray diffraction radiation mators was 40 The 40 glass mm Ryter to with or a microscopy flat-film camera thick in the beam 0.25 cut at were 45°, mm and Ni-filtered CuKa direction, using pinhole diameter. The and microscopy specimen-to-film in which were a found out introducing clearance colli- distance were heavy angle on an of 4°, a in Vestopal section. Generally, expected metal to might be W LKB-Ultrotome with speed of 1.0 mm/sec. be favourable. With thinner sections to of the crystallites embedded were and sectioned Kellenberger pushed because the themselves, electron and feed of 900 A applied mm and 0.5 for specimens crystallites 3. long electron out mm. knives a 0.5 specimens on according and carried was no highly metal most staining was electron opaque obscure their by perceptibility. RESULTS 3.1. X-ray diffraction X-ray diagrams demonstrating Acta Bot. Neerl. 18(I), Febr. 1969 the presence of BaSQ in 4 Spirogyra are shown in 145 D. R. Fig. 1. Quadrants of X-ray powder demonstrating the a. b. c. d. Fig. 2. Extracted with Ashed alcohol Commercial X-ray diagram by normal to positions arcs are and H S0 2 sample of a 4 in page. of with aqua HCI solution 4 of the in several stages of treatment, are regia, of carbonate melt, . parallel Layer-lines Spirogyra BOERE . stack of flattened centres cellulose 4 H. acetone, of BaS0 extraction. Beam of the diagrams of BaS0 after extraction sample Precipitate with moved 146 presence KREGER AND cell to the indicated arcs walls from which walls, in of enhanced the latter one the quadrant, intensity in contents had parallel with to equator the the BaSQ 4 been and re- nor- corresponding rings. The broad reflections. Acta Bot. Neeri 18(1), Febr. 1969 BARIUM SULPHATE IN I. fig. It is evident that the diffraction correspond with those of 2 represents Fig. 2.1.2. and to the SPIROGYRA filaments of direction a in suspended were 4 X-ray diagram an irradiated in in the various stages of rings of commercial BaS0 sample a parallel thin, coherent layer, in which the cell walls flatten such layers 1 dicular in the thus of fig. 2 is diagram shows cutting parallel a so called to the rings come BaS0 position to orientation of uniplanar BaS0 crystallites and arcs orthorhombic with question direction provided by the axes mentionedin table 1. are mm of rings indices of the 1. Data men in from of the specimen. 2 fig. The d a = (Smith 8.87 A indicated = of the position are plane (002) similarly — The crystals 5.45 A and with plane orientation spacing 2/ 40 = spacing d (from in A, indi- diameters in hkl Smith = Miller 1960), n used to determine the crystallite orientation of BaS0 4 in the speci- hkl n 4.35 Oil i 3.90 111 i 37.0 3.58 002 2 (merid.) 38.4 3.44 210 0 (equal.) 40.4 3.32 102 2 43.6 3.10 48.9 2.83 112 51.4 2.73 020 bic, they are or of the 211 layer-line that the axis c has the cell wall surface. oriented with the Acta Bot. Neerl. 18( 1), Febr. = the text. 33.5 specimen A. 7.15 be derived can ring are = c from 29.7 correspondence is data of crystallographic follows: as d interpretation in arcs has in its walls cellulose 1960). b corresponding incident beam and the equator of the the The arcs. question. Explanation in 2/40 of the are arcs, crystallographic layer-line position Table They with distinct in- equator, while those which determined known from which the diagram strip. the to in the perpen- distinctly , The data a The equator of arcs in which the be can the mentioned in the A.S.T.M. data file be a with reference crystallites form Several of glass. 1957). (Kreger intensified the purpose to direction of the spacings, in surface leaflet faces. crystallites BaS0 4 4 to the to from cellulose micelles. The 4 cated to according that adhesive. A strip, about an longitudinal Spirogyra species wall surface of the position the to correspond The orientation of the the parallel symmetrical a the latter indicates that the parallel and out on as For glass a and irradiated in definite orientation of the a diffraction somewhat broadened with gum arabic some of the stack out on diffraction rings all of which exhibit with intensity, revealing sharp with cut the direction of to creased then was diagram The heaped were wide, mm the walls. to and dried water filaments cleaned Spirogyra treatment . 1969 a, number a n 1 2 0 with the Miller-index I allows preferential diagram, Hence, orientation normal i.e. normal since the 6-plane parallel tot to to the the leaflet plane crystallites are of orthorhom- the wall. 147 D. 3.2. Electron At first sight opaque one or 3. in but remnants Fig. of a a micrographs a section shrunken of b. c. a of contained crystallites the about 3000 20 x some 4 by there or of AND H. BOERE a BaS0 4 but careful expected, small individual, and distribution in the order of they appeared was a small as undamaged hole the knife. Also empty holes containing were observed crystallites, Note their connection crystallites. with electron with be to presence A, Sometimes ja. trapezia, protoplasm. Top right: chloroplast Fractured as showing part of the cell transparant core wall. and with Bottom empty the right: holes periphery cross which of section presumably starch. crystallite Two empty holes, have been pushed d. Two well formed 148 of them fractured crystallite Part of have cases show the not some field about 20 in other Electron a. in crystallites, measuring two prisms, KREGER microscopy the sections did revealed searching R. at with high magnification. scratches due to Note knife contact with damage caused plasma by the membrane. crystals that out. prisms. Plasma in this case stained with uranyl Acta Bot. NeerL acetate. 18(1), Febr. 1969 BARIUM SULPHATE where SPIROOYRA had been crystallites heavily and scratched, situated in frequently of the knife damage As IN edge In contents. a the on proof as instance its or that Some crystals. were the examples were it found, was scratches was caused were by shown in fig. 3. are they all present were observed in crystallites any Most sections remnants it may be noted that crystallites no of the section. out crystallite scratch a the location of the to in the cell fully pushed where or the on wall. Measurements of width and showing curves in which A, the half and for the 15% pezia, The and as crystals Although plasts 8% rhombs and as outside the on with the characterized in the are grains. metal By empty holes. It is penetrate the starch, and sections floated on were of this chloroplasts have that by a number of a of the 20 % total. as tra- round. stands well reasonably out Most chloroplasts. membrane may account on of by core of these surrounding of their they had come is which very electron shape not shown slightly from more be to been able the to when the disappeared free trans- reminiscent are were medium had swelling, to be noted that the chloro- large, sections some surface water it ring embedding this, round nearly a were 10% rectangles, as were staining, paper, sections that the a about lengths, 1400 A and 3000 at clusters and membranes elsewhere in the cell. shadowing supposed few inner side of the parent spots in their periphery, which of starch 2800 A for the and retraction around the plasma scope at found were sections a distribution crystallites yielded In addition there in the the absence of any despite contact 60 A, representing 7500 X crystals appeared observed in or some 2000 A and 4500 A. strong plasmolysis a were clusters at squares, plasma, shows of numbers for the widths around 4500 of the % length 1700 A for the widths and at peak lenghts bigger crystals About 55 peak a knife. electron The trans- parent than its surroundings. 3.3. A Dry survey given Table in 2. of BaS weight percentages of the most O4 representative determinations of the BaS0 content is 4 table 2. Dry weight percentages time in sample 1 of BaSD 4 found in some samples dry weight BaSOj (in mg) (ing) precipitated alcohol of in Spirogyra. % of in % corrected dry weight 2 weeks 4.55 20.6 0.45 0.43 2 2 months 4.08 18.00 0.44 0.42 3 fresh 1.03 3.0 0.29 0.415 4 2 weeks 1.35 10.5 0.78 0.75 Samples 1, 2 and about 165 (j. wide, three months in 3 in an outdoor tions: 198 mg clean walls 836 mg cell contents Acta Bot. Need. table 2 refer collected from 18(1), container, prepared obtained Febr. water 1969 as to a Spirogyra works basins. and the species with filaments No. 3 had been sample consisted of indicated under 2.1.a. in the by evaporation of the collected kept two methods, washings. for fracand The 149 D. BaS0 content 4 determined in the was negligible quantity with much thinner threads, collected from It contains 2 refers fig. 4. BaS0 more than do the a other to and the only a different species a ditch in the Delft botanical samples, H. BOER 6 in which separately, 4 refers Sample 4 material from the to fractions two found in the walls. was AND R. KREOER gardens. of X-ray diagram batch. same DISCUSSION Since BaS0 electron for the reason tained of diagrams fore in their The their place, of which the this which they crystals plane parallel the to remain crystal to offig. the wall. In the second former enable a dry weight crystallographic extension, might in length 3000 A A, i.e. with 1700 x length A about 7500 contents about 0.15 p types each are in the group in the crystals, Neglecting cell the volume these 3 . a If 10% square the of the of the 0.45 while these physico- the interfibrillar or chemically in (001) and, inert very we one in the cells and the size of the made of their and with a basal 9 x % BaSD x about plane A, 4500 is as crystals, quantities a crystallite i.e. indicated with a the by the numbers of the of BaS0 4 represented or by 1:2. roughly of the cells is present in the form of the about 90 enables small basal 0.009:0.15, i.e. about 8:15 4 this 4500 comprises, total number of size-groups, two the other with , plane of and the square 3 distribution in mean may be devided into about 0.009 p represent large crystals be latter group proportion 9:1, containing further calculation weight of 0.15% BaS0 algae specific weight taining 150 drying some an and crystal of the total number of crystals. % estimate of the be made of the to mean mean between distance crystallites. In the the a contents proportion Therefore, only 1/3 smaller about and measurements, about two of with 4 to crystallites ranging be plane account on predominates is of BaS0 content calculation rough the cell. For that purpose the 1700 BaS0 there- sought possibility. The data about the crystallites one which 4, the by be twofold. In the first or there 4 the prefer and the BaSD wall, would evoke the orientation. Since hence, be to ob- specimens and in fact in the empty cells. chemical interaction between the oriented cellulose micelles, matrix substance of the 3 in table 2 the process of during place, wall 2, has captured face of greatest would orientate themselves observed never sample in cell 6-plane a, were form part of the wall. The not crystallites might i.e. the orientation, (001), might correspond wall, fraction of X-ray diagram of the orientation of the plane wall similarly prepared specimens, insolubility, by reason the against crystallites 4 shown in the as number of a of BaS0 presence by extraction, or the cell may conclude that it does we 4, only wall, and micrographs, free of BaS0 was in the cell crystallites 4 in the 4 is no for the weight of more crystallite to BaS04 will is not of 0.009 4.48, into of the consideration that fresh 1, we we and weight, for the fresh 0.0075% for which be far from 3 p take % becomes dry weight of the fresh cells one have we than about 5 take 4.5, the dry therefore weight. and the Since specific find for the volume V con- : Acta Bot. Need. 18(1), Febr. 1969 BARIUM SULPHATE IN SPIROGYRA The above the occupy to a of cube a crystallites The chance of tioning would outcome centre between the 0.0075 X V/100 can be calculated does crystallites not 3 0.009 (i. X that mean about 8 8 of on similar a 18 18 X seem to p, i.e. of BaS0 around 0.5 4 would distance calculated % of ease by sec- in magnifi- x detecting the practice. thataS/wogyracellof would contain with - a number of crystallites in the order a - size corresponding 10.000 at experienced was easily field a of the picture average dimensions, say 80 p diameter and 500 p long, content mutual distribution and 18 X be far from what From the above data it is furthermore dry weight the photograph cm about 1 in 5. This at and . crystallites p. a section field of 18 a 540 p = distributed 8 [i, x 3 V or , evenly x would then be 8 normal field of view cation, 4.5 hitting crystallites 1000 A feed in at = of 5000. A last question in of the with the compared BaS0 of interest point forms the to consider concentration in the of 20 °C is indicated as 2 water 4 Spirogyra, of 0,022 BaS0 0,037% - of these scope BaS0 calculations in the cells as 4 data of table 2 for fresh content within the of accumulation of the degree i.e. environment. mg/liter with in the 4 4 2 living cell as the of solubility and conversion of the %, of 95 content there is cells, the substance per unit of volume in the or water a Since be can leads %, 110-185 times to a much of as maximally present in the environment. Because the size of the limit of the visible taining ing this by BaS0 4 according to we time this cell and are in very these connected be this respect raised whether that was a they Spirogyra when examined under the small, highly birefringent are con- polarizin particles after rotation of the filaments. 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