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Image Title: Section of chimeral apex of a Balanophora tuber
Image Credit: Ruben Mitchell, University of Texas
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Copyright held by: Ruben Mitchell, BSA
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About the Image

Section of chimeral apex of a Balanophora tuber. The composite bundle shown is an integrated mixture of host and parasite cells, which acts as the host/parasite interface. Parasite meristematic cells are large (large nuclei are yellow or blue, with small dots). Small cells with light blue nuclei are host meristematic cells (center of micrograph). Pseudocolorized image.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Composite bundles, the host/parasite interface in the holoparasitic angiosperms Langsdorffia and Balanophora (Balanophoraceae)

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