palisade mesophyll cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0006206
Aspect
plant anatomy
Synonyms
related: palisade parenchyma cell
exact: célula del mesófilo en empalizada (Spanish)
exact: 柵状葉肉細胞 (Japanese)
Definition
Elongated chlorenchymatous cell oriented perpendicular to the leaf surface and which is active in photosynthesis. [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal]
Comment
Usually found in the adaxil/upper part of the leaf mesophyll. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.

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