Plant Organelle Photos

The Plant Cell as Seen with the Transmission Electron Microscope

Electron micrographs courtesy of Dr. Eldon Newcomb:

1. Young Plant Cell: view of nucleus, mitochondria and vacuoles

2. Plant Cell: view of nucleus with nucleolus, mitochondria chloroplasts and vacuole

3. Plant Cell: View of nuclear envelope, microbodies, mitochondria, and a chloroplast

4. Plant Cell: view of a chloroplast showing detail of the grana

6. Plant Cell: Golgi Bodies

7. Plant Cell: View of leucoplast with mitochondrion and endoplasmic reticulum

9. Plant Cell: View of microtubules below the cell wall (cross section of microtubules)

11. Cell Wall: View of plasmodesmata (cross section)

12. Plant Cell: view of parenchyma cell with a large central vacuole

13. Plant Cell: Endoplasmic reticulum with polysomes