“…Protein bodies differ in their structural complexity, and Rost (1972), and later Lott and Buttrose (1978), adopted a classification to describe the structural features of protein bodies within seeds. It has been generally considered that all species within the Fabaceae have only homogeneous protein bodies (Bain and Mercer, 1966;Opik, 1966;Miege, 1975;Pernollet, 1978;Weber and Neumann, 1980), although protein bodies with both protein crystalloid and globoid inclusions (heterogeneous) have been observed in cotyledons of pea (perner, 1965), lupin (LeGal and Rey, 1986), Cytisus (Citharel and Citharel, 1987), and Medicago sativa (Singh, 1977). In addition, a number of species within the tribe Genistae, such as Cytisus, are known to possess both homogeneous and heterogeneous protein bodies, which are spatially separated (Citharel and Citharel, 1987).…”