What is the name of Golgi apparatus in a plant cell?

In plant cells, the Golgi apparatus is often referred to as dictyosomes. These structures perform the same essential functions as the Golgi apparatus in animal cells, serving as the cell's processing and packaging center for proteins and lipids. The term "dictyosome" specifically describes the individual stacks of flattened, membrane-bound sacs that make up the Golgi complex in plants.

Plant cells typically contain numerous separate dictyosomes distributed throughout the cytoplasm, rather than the single, large, interconnected Golgi apparatus commonly found in animal cells. Despite this structural difference in organization, dictyosomes carry out identical roles: modifying proteins received from the endoplasmic reticulum, adding carbohydrate tags, sorting molecules, and packaging them into vesicles for transport to their final destinations within the cell or for secretion outside the cell. This modification and sorting function is particularly important in plant cells for producing cell wall materials and secretory products.