Electrical potentials and its fluctuations in nodal cells of nitellopsis obtusa

Abstract

Using the liquid microelectrode technique, the electrical potentials of nodal cells and the with them internodal cells neighbouring, of Nitellopsis obtusa plants of the Characeae family were determined. A specific variation in the potential of nodal cells in the form of cacophony-type irregular disturbances was also found, indicating that the node is not a passive mechanical element controlled by internodal cells, but is a complex system of coupled-, and different metabolic oscillators.

Keywords

• Nitellopsis
• nodal cells
• potential changes
• biological oscillators