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Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 144 (January 1972), pp. 73-81 (13 pages) The origin and development of vacuoles in root and root cap cells of Lepidium sativum was investigated at the ...
CONTRACTILE vacuoles are found only in those cells which lack a continuous cell-wall. This appeared to suggest that the function of the contractile vacuole is to eliminate dissolved crystalloids and ...