sieve tube
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025416
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: tubo criboso (Spanish)
- exact: 師(篩)管 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A portion of phloem tissue (PO:0005417) that has as parts a series of sieve tube elements (PO:0000289) arranged end to end and interconnected through sieve plates. [source: ISBN:0471245208]
- Comment
- A sieve plate is part of a sieve tube member.
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