Talk:Appressorium

A fact from Appressorium appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 October 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the appressorium—a specialized cell typical of many fungal plant pathogens—can develop enough turgor pressure to puncture Mylar?

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That this can go through PET film is highly unlikely. WackyBoots (talk) 18:15, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly sure that's true, believe it or not! Smartse (talk) 22:40, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures, electron microscopy[edit]

Could we get pictures for this? I saw it today in a lecture course, sadly I don't yet have the .pdf files. The picture was amazing, one could see the little holes that the Appressorium created, it was like a little hole caused by a twist driller (Note: that was when the hyphae attacked a plant cell, I am referring to these holes caused by the target of the appressorium). 193.83.131.15 (talk)