“…In meristematic tissues (Marinos, 1967;Possingham, 1980;Possingham and Lawrence, 1983;Sagisaka and Akita, 1994) and developing pollen grains (Ameele, 1982;Nepi et al, 1996;Pacini et al, 1992), cells are rich in proplastids (formed via the A pathway) that are heterogeneous in terms of ultrastructure and metabolic activity (Akita and Sagisaka, 1995). These proplastids can be divided in terms of their development into younger ones (y proplastids) and older ones (o proplastids) (Akita and Sagisaka, 1995;Sagisaka et al, 1999). The former proplastids are primary products of the division of mother plastids in moss (Frey-Wyssling and Mühlethaler, 1965;Maltzahn von and Mühletha-ler, 1962) and woody plants (Sagisaka, 1991a(Sagisaka, , b, 1992, and the y proplastid is the starting organelle in the A pathway.…”