portion of plant tissue
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009007
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: plant tissue
- exact: porción de un tejido vegetal (Spanish)
- exact: 植物組織の一部 (Japanese)
- broad: portion of tissue
- broad: tissue
- Definition
- A plant structure (PO:0009011) that consists predominantly of similarly specialized plant cells (PO:0009002) of one or more types. [source: POC:curators, TAIR:Leonore_Reiser]
- Comment
- A portion of plant tissue may contain one or several types of cells that are organized in a specific spatial arrangement into a structural unit (which includes a mass of callus) and may include an intercellular matrix. May include other types of isolated cells, such as idioblasts.
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