shoot system epidermis
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0006035
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: シュート表皮 (Japanese)
- exact: epidermis del epiblasto (epiblastema) (Spanish)
- Definition
- A portion of epidermis (PO:0005679) that is part of a shoot system (PO:0009006) and arises from the meristem L1 layer (PO:0009020). [source: ISBN:047124529, POC:curators, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- Often interrupted by stomatal complexes (PO:0002000) and other structures. The shoot system epidermis is different from the root epidermis (PO:0006036) in its origin, function and structure.
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