portion of vascular tissue
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009015
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: vascular system
- exact: 維管束細胞の一部 (Japanese)
- exact: porción de tejido vascular (Spanish)
- exact: vascular tissue
- Definition
- A portion of plant tissue (PO:0009007) that has as part one or more tracheary elements (PO:0000290) or sieve elements (PO:0025406). [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- Functions in conduction and support. In shoot axes (PO:0025029), vascular tissue is often found as part of a shoot axis stele (PO:0025198) or as scattered vascular bundles (PO:0005020). May include other types of tissues or cells, such as parenchyma (PO:0005421) or fiber cells (PO:0025407).
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