This makes a big vacuole more effective at volume expansion. Gilroy, S. & Trewavas, A. Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell ...

and plant cells can have more than one type of vacuole. Vacuoles are related to lysosomes and share some functions with these structures; for instance, both contain degradative enzymes for ...

The basic structure of a plant cell is shown below – the ... with cell sap to help keep the cell turgid. Animal cells may also have vacuoles but these are small and temporary.