Secondarily-forming Coated Vesicles in Ray Parenchyma Cells of Pinus radiata Needle Traces

Coated vesicles in ray parenchyma cells of Pinus radiata needletraces were observed to form secondarily from smooth vesicles.The nascent coated vesicles were seen as small protrusions ofthe bounding membrane of smooth vesicles. Initially they wereellipsoidal or dome shaped, later becoming spheroidal. Althougha coat was observable at the spheroidal stage the coat was mostpronounced in vesicles that had separated from parent smoothvesicles. Coated vesicles were most common near dictyosomeswhere they were often seen in stages of formation from smoothvesicles and in the cortical cytoplasm near the plasmalemma.The plasmalemma developed small protrusions some of which appearedcoated at the cytoplasmic face. Coated vesicles, Pinus radiata, needle trace, ray parenchyma