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SEM view of fractured surface of mesophyll

A scanning electron micrograph of a cryo-fractured surface through a leaf lamina of poplar (Populus sp.) showing palisade and spongy mesophyll cells. The bulges in the lateral walls of other palisade cells represent shrinkage artifacts that reveal the peripheral location of the chloroplasts.

 
   
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