[Structural and functional reorganization of photosynthetic apparatus in cold adaptation of wheat plants].

The structural and functional characteristics of the photosynthetic apparatus (PSA) and the cold resistance of wheat seedlings were studied during low-temperature adaptation. It has been established that large chloroplasts with thylakoid system of "sun type" forme in the mesophyll cells in the early hours of plants hardening. At the same time the functional reorganization of the PSA in the leaves of wheat occurs: content of pigments changes, stabilization of the pigment-protein complexes is observed, non-photochemical quenching of excess energy increases.

[The smooth endoplasmic reticulum develops in mesophyll cells of early-spring ephemerals].

A study was made of the mesophyll cell ultrastructure of early-spring ephemerals Scilla sibirica, Crocus vernus, Galanthus caucasicus, G. plicatus, Leucojum vernum, Muscari szovitsianum, Ornithogalum balansae of summer-vegetating. Scilla scilloides and of S.