leaf mesophyll

Term Information

Accession
PO:0005645
Aspect
plant anatomy
Synonyms
related: foliage leaf mesophyll
related: leaf parenchyma
exact: 葉ãŪ葉肉 (Japanese)
exact: mesófilo de la hoja (Spanish)
Definition
The chloroplast-containing, photosynthetic parenchymatous tissue situated between the two epidermal layers of the foliage leaf. [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, ISBN:0080374913]
Comment
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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