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UK
/mˈɛɹɪstəm/
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NOUN
- undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root
How To Use meristem In A Sentence
- Companion cell An elongated thin walled cell cut off longitudinally from the same meristematic cell as the SIEVE ELEMENT with which it is closely associated.
- When the seeds sprout, some individuals produce annularly inflated hair zones above early initial roots near root tip meristematic zones.
- Leaves communicate photoperiodic signals to meristems, stolons and buds in flowering, tuberization and dormancy.
- Leaves communicate photoperiodic signals to meristems, stolons and buds in flowering, tuberization and dormancy.
- Leaves in vascular plants are produced by determinate growth on the flanks of indeterminate shoot apical meristems.
- Since leaf bases provide insulating protection to the apical meristem, this is one reason to not overtrim palms at any time of the year. Naplesnews.com Stories
- The flower meristems are produced acropetally by the inflorescence meristem and are subtended by bracts.
- The reproductive shoot apex contains the indeterminate, primary inflorescence meristem that produces the main inflorescence axis of the plant.
- Thus, significant inflorescence and floral meristem activity is restored to stm null mutant plants in the absence of ULT1 function.
- In each bundle, separating the xylem and phloem, is a layer of meristem or active formative tissue, known as cambium; by the formation of a layer of cambium between the bundles Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1