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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 theprotoderm and develops into primaryxylem and primaryphloem .
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Examples
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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
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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
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B: Wild-type older torpedo-stage embryo, showing expression in procambium; bar = 100 µm.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010
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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
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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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