Ester loading proves to be unsuccessful in most cases and the cell wall and turgor make plant cells difficult to microinject.
Egg jelly precursor molecules thus seem to penetrate the vitelline envelope, but slowly and after swelling and turgor pressure has set in.
Figure 9c shows an example of mostly intact axis cells covered with a layer of damaged endosperm cells that are characterized by loss of turgor and lack of distinguishable organelles.
Increasing turgor in the growing perivitelline space may even squeeze out the tips of the microvilli over the surface of the vitelline envelope.
Available water is required to ensure the positive turgor pressures necessary to expand growing cells during leaf flush, flowering and fruit development.
Measures of water content and water and turgor potentials did not reveal signs of a mild water stress in either treatment.
The dead epidermal cells lack turgor and have heavily folded walls.
The transgenic seedlings were only marginally affected over the 7-h air-drying period and after rehydration, they fully recovered turgor and recommenced growth.
