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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The primary meristem that gives rise to vascular tissue.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a long-celled initial strand of a vascular bundle; a similar or homogeneous formative cell of a bundle. Compare cambium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A meristem that lies just inside the protoderm and develops into primary xylem and primary phloem.

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Examples

  • G: fkhyd2 late torpedo-stage embryo, showing expression in presumptive procambium; bar = 50 µm. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0012227.g003

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • Scarpella E, Francis P, Berleth Y (2004) Stage-specific markers define early steps of procambium development in Arabidopsis leaves and correlate termination of vein formation with mesophyll differentiation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • B: Wild-type older torpedo-stage embryo, showing expression in procambium; bar = 100 µm.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • It is in the embryo that the establishment of the early vascular tissues, the procambium, occurs.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • Vertical bars in (L and M) indicate enlarged region shown in (P and Q). pd, protoderm; pc, procambium; col, columella initials; QC, quiescent center; v, vascular tissue; ep, epidermis; c, cortex; en, endodermis.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010

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