secondary xylem development stage
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025427
- Aspect
- plant structure development stage
- Synonyms
- exact: etapa de desarrollo del xilema secundario (Spanish)
- exact: sapwood development stage
- exact: wood development stage
- exact: 二次木質部発生過程 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A xylem development stage (PO:0025425) that has as primary participant a portion of secondary xylem (PO:0005848) tissue during the interval between the beginning of a cell division stage of secondary xylem (PO:0025463) and the death of the last living cell in the secondary xylem. [source: POC:wood_curators]
- Comment
- During a secondary xylem development stage (also called a wood development stage), the cells of secondary xylem (PO:0005848), including tracheary elements (PO:0000290), xylem fiber cells (PO:0000274), and wood parenchyma cells (PO:0004525) undergo cellular developmental processes (GO:0048869) such as cell division (GO:0051301), cell growth (GO:0016049), cell differentiation (GO:0030154), or cell death (GO:0008219). The transition from sapwood to heartwood marks the end of the secondary xylem development stage.
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