Phragmoplast and cell plate formation in a plant cell during cytokinesis. Left side: Phragmoplast forms and cell plate starts to assemble in the center of the cell. Towards the right: Phragmoplast enlarges in a donut-shape towards the outside of the cell, leaving behind mature cell plate in the center. The cell plate will transform into the new cell wall once cytokinesis is complete.

Cytokinesis in terrestrial plants occurs by cell plate formation. Cytokinesis is the process whereby the Cytoplasm of a single Eukaryotic cell is divided to form two daughter cells This process entails the delivery of Golgi-derived and endosomal vesicles carrying cell wall and cell membrane components to the plane of cell division and the subsequent fusion of these vesicles within this plane. The Golgi apparatus (also called the A cell wall is a tough flexible and sometimes fairly rigid layer surrounding a cell, located external to the Cell membrane, which provides the cell with structural The cell membrane (also called the plasma membrane, plasmalemma, or "phospholipid bilayer" is a Selectively permeable Lipid bilayer Cell division is a process by which a cell, called the parent cell divides into two or more cells called daughter cells.

After formation of an early tubulo-vesicular network at the center of the cell, the initially labile cell plate consolidates into a tubular network and eventually a fenestrated sheet. The cell plate grows outward from the center of the cell to the parental plasma membrane with which it will fuse, thus completing cell division. Cell division is a process by which a cell, called the parent cell divides into two or more cells called daughter cells. Formation and growth of the cell plate is dependent upon the phragmoplast, which is required for proper targeting of Golgi-derived vesicles to the cell plate. The phragmoplast is a Plant cell specific structure that forms during late Cytokinesis. The Golgi apparatus (also called the

As the cell plate matures in the central part of the cell, the phragmoplast disassembles in this region and new elements are added on its outside. The phragmoplast is a Plant cell specific structure that forms during late Cytokinesis. This process leads to a steady expansion of the phragmoplast, and concomitantly, to a continuous retargeting of Golgi-derived vesicles to the growing edge of the cell plate. The Golgi apparatus (also called the Once the cell plate reaches and fuses with the plasma membrane the phragmoplast disappears. The phragmoplast is a Plant cell specific structure that forms during late Cytokinesis. This event not only marks the separation of the two daughter cells, but also initiates a range of biochemical modifications that transform the callose-rich, flexible cell plate into a cellulose-rich, stiff primary cell wall. Callose is a plant polysaccharide It is comprised of glucose residues linked together through b-13-linkages and is termed a B-glucan Cellulose is an Organic compound with the formula, a Polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β(1→4 A cell wall is a tough flexible and sometimes fairly rigid layer surrounding a cell, located external to the Cell membrane, which provides the cell with structural

The heavy dependence of cell plate formation on active Golgi stacks explains why plant cells, unlike mammalian cells, do not disassemble their secretion machinery during cell division. The Golgi apparatus (also called the Plant cells are eukaryotic cells that differ in several key respects from the cells of other eukaryotic Organisms Their distinctive features