An effort to establish a novel experimental system for the study of planer cell polarity

盾叶鞘藻是轮藻中的一种藻类，其体内只有一层细胞层。为了建立一个分析个体细胞形态与整体形态关系的实验系统，我们建立了一套能够在显微镜下对细胞轮廓和胞体位置进行连续数周三维追踪的培养系统。利用这一系统，正在对该藻类中的微管进行分析。

Coleocaete scutata is an alga of Charophytes whose body is consisted of only one cell layer. In order to establish an experimental system for the analysis of the relationships between individual cell shaping and the whole body shaping, we developed the culture system of C. scutata that enables us to trace the cell outline and plastid position three dimensionally for many weeks under a microscope. Using this system, the analysis of microtubules in this alga is in progress.