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protoplast
Sign in to savethumb|right|Protoplasts of cells from a petunia's leaf thumb|Protoplasts of the moss Physcomitrella patens Protoplast (), is a biological term coined by Hanstein in 1880 to refer to the entire cell, excluding the cell wall. Protoplasts can be generated by stripping the cell wall from plant, bacterial, or fungal cells by mechanical, chemical or enzymatic means.
Research
13,722 papers- [Protoplast and its application in molecular mechanism of quality formation of traditional Chinese medicine].Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica · 2020
- Protoplast Isolation and Transfection in Wheat.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
- Protoplast Isolation and Transfection in Rice.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
- Protoplast technology in woody plants: current advances and potential applications in genetic improvement.Tree physiology · 2025
- Protoplast for Gene Functional Analysis in Arabidopsis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Enzymes for the preparation of protoplasts
- Uses for protoplasts
- See also
- References
thumb|right|Protoplasts of cells from a petunia's leaf thumb|Protoplasts of the moss Physcomitrella patens Protoplast (), is a biological term coined by Hanstein in 1880 to refer to the entire cell, excluding the cell wall. Protoplasts can be generated by stripping the cell wall from plant, bacterial, or fungal cells by mechanical, chemical or enzymatic means.
Protoplasts differ from spheroplasts in that their cell wall has been completely removed. Spheroplasts retain part of their cell wall. In the case of Gram-negative bacterial spheroplasts, for example, the peptidoglycan component of the cell wall has been removed but the outer membrane component has not.
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