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Plant Pathology Glossary
... it grows through them, obtaining its energy from the dead cells. Compare with biotroph. top O Obligate Parasite an ... tissue comprised of living, thin-walled cells of variable size and form. Parenchyma cells are the most abundant cell type ... leaves, composed of elongate, tubular cells aligned perpendicular to the leaf surface. Palisade parenchyma cells generally contain an abundance of chloroplasts. ...
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Plant Pathology: Infection Process: Plant Defenses: Passive Defenses
... produced by some plants Inhibiting compounds may be excreted into the external environment, accumulate in dead cells or be sequestered into vacuoles in an inactive form. The young fruit of numerous plants ...
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Learn the basics on parts of trees, their structures and physical characteristics.
... functions, one is ridding the tree of wastes by absorbing and locking them into its dead cells and resins. LISTSERV@listserv.Arizona.EDUThis listserv is an e-mail distribution list for dendrochronology ...
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... dead cells are connected in ways that support the heavy, woody framework while maintaining the biological process essential for life. Wood is a highly ordered arrangement of living, dying and dead cells ... also impregnate the dead cells. As the volume of protection wood increases, the ratio of dynamic mass (symplast in sapwood) to static mass (protection wood with all dead cells) changes. Because the ...
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... dead cells that have walls of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Symplast - The highly ordered connection of living axial and radial parenchyma in wood and bark. Apoplast - The highly ordered connection of dead cells ... living system because it connects living and dead cells, and, in a sense, still maintains some control over the dead parts. The cell walls of dead fibers still hold bound water that ...
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The Ferns
... at right. Spores are contained in sacs called sporangia. In many ferns, a crest of dead cells termed the annulus undergoes hygroscopic movements causing the sporangium to break open exposing the spores ... . stomium spores annulus The annulus comprises dead water-filled cells and stretches about two-thirds of the way around the sporangium. The walls of the cells of the annulus are thinner on the ...
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Stem & Root Anatomy
... wider cells called vessel elements. The walls of these cells are heavily lignified, with openings in the walls called pits. Tracheids and vessels become hollow, water-conducting pipelines after the cells are dead ... xylem tissue in plant stems is actually composed of dead cells. In fact, wood is essentially dead xylem cells that have dried out. The dead tissue is hard and dense because of lignin ...
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Wood/Plant Fiber Crossword
... . Another word for tangentially-sawed lumber. 10. Long, thick-walled fiber cells in the phloem parenchyma of stems. 14. Lignified, mostly dead tissue conducting water & minerals upward in a stem. 15. Primary ... fibers called sisal. 37. The lignified xylem tissue of a tree trunk (mostly composed of dead cells). 40. Synthetic textile fiber made from the cellulose of wood pulp. 41. A woody monocot ...
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Botany online: Supporting Tissues - Conducting Tissues
... The collenchyma, a tissue of living cells, the sclerenchyma, a tissue of nearly always dead cells, and the vascular tissue consisting of both living and dead cells. It is responsible for the ... is, the higher is its content of dead cells. Dead cells are exceptions among bryophytes, but very common in flowering plants. They are usually elongated (prosenchymatous) cells, in parallel to the axis of ...
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PKAL - 2000 Summer Institute - Keystone - Documents - Plant Cells
... to the cell theory first elaborated by Schleiden and Schwann, cells are the fundamental units of life. As a result, common ... cell status (alive vs. dead), and cell function before your examination of each plant sample. Surface or epidermal cells These are derived from ... used? (NB: multiple aspects of leaves noticeable, e.g., mesophyll cells, stomata, etc.) Nut "meat" Mince small amounts of walnut (or ...
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