FUNCTIONS OF GOLGI APPARATUS IN PLANT CELLS:
- The cell wall of plants is made up of mainly polysaccharides along with some lipids and proteins.
- In plants, Golgi apparatus is mainly involved in secretion of materials of primary and secondary cell walls.
- These include formation and transport of glycoproteins, lipids, pectin and monomers for lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose etc.
- During cytokinesis of mitosis or meiosis, the vesicles which originate from the periphery of the Golgi apparatus, coalesce in the phragmoplast area to form a semi-solid layer, called cell plate.
- The unit membrane of the golgi complex fuses during cell plate formation and becomes a part of the plasma membrane of the daughter cells.
