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Calcification in Plants

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Biological Calcification: Cellular and Molecular Aspects

Abstract

Raphides of calcium oxalate were among the first objects to be observed under the optical microscope. Leeuwenhoek described the raphides which occur in Arum in a letter to Mr. H. Oldenberg written August 14, 1675. One of the first signs of life in Precambrian rocks were the calcareous filamentous algae of thin limestone reefs which are scarcely different from their counterparts in a modern coralline community. Yet in spite of the fact that deposits of calcium salts in plants are abundant, diverse, and complex and the mineral matter, chemically and physically, indistinguishable from the same substances in animals, there seems to be a lack of studies on the metabolism and structure of plants, comparable to those of bone and shell. A great deal of information is available from the literature as to the location and appearance of calcium deposits in plants, but surprisingly little can be found about the mechanism of calcification, and still less about the ultrastructural features of the event.

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