protoxylem
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0000272
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: portion of protoxylem tissue
- exact: protoxilema (Spanish)
- exact: 原生木(質)部 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A portion of primary xylem (PO:0000272) tissue that has as part one or more protoxylem tracheary elements (PO:0025575) embedded in parenchyma (PO:0005421) tissue. [source: ISBN:047125208, ISBN:0471738433, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- Develops while the vascular tissue (PO:0009015) is still elongating. When protoxylem tracheary elements (PO:0025575) are destroyed they may become obliterated by surrounding parenchyma cells (PO:0000074). Protoxylem has smaller elements than the metaxylem (PO:0000372).
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