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From: Combining BN-PAGE and microscopy techniques to investigate pigment-protein complexes and plastid transitions in citrus fruit

Fig. 2

Plastids isolated from the outer peel of kumquat at three different coloring stages. A Representative photographs of kumquat fruit used for plastid isolation. From left to right: ‘Green’, ‘Breaker’ and ‘Orange’ represent the stage from immature green to mature orange phase. B Frozen sections of epicarp. C Transmission electron microscopic (TEM) images showing the ultrastructural features of plastids in the outer peel of kumquat. Red arrow shows thylakoid lamellar structure. Yellow arrow shows plastoglobule (PG). Blue arrow shows starch grains. D Statistical analysis of the size of PGs per plastid in flavedo at three different coloring stages from Fig. 2, C. The y-axis represents the number of PGs at a given size, which indicated on the x-axis. The statistics was performed for a total of 140 PGs from 15 plastids. (E) Statistical analysis of the average number of PGs per plastid in flavedo at different maturation stages. The statistics was calculated from 15 plastids selected randomly

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