Surface area of mitochondrion

Range 0.5-0.8 µm^2
Organism Spinach Spinacia oleracea
Reference Zellnig G, Zechmann B, Perktold A. Morphological and quantitative data of plastids and mitochondria within drought-stressed spinach leaves. Protoplasma. 2004 Jun223(2-4):221-7.PubMed ID15221528
Method Selected cell organelles were investigated at a high level of resolution with the transmission electron microscope, using ultrathin serial sections to create three-dimensional reconstructions.
Comments For volume of mitochondrion see BNID 104801
Entered by Uri M
ID 104802