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UK
/zˈaɪləm/
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NOUN
- the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels
How To Use xylem In A Sentence
- Xylem and xylem parenchyma can be recognized in the centre of the taproot surrounded by a ring of meristematic tissue with very high intensity.
- Xylem vessels, the vascular tubes responsible for water transport throughout the plant, are formed by tracheary elements.
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- Their internal stem structure is characterized by a eustele with endarch protoxylem, where a small amount of manoxylic wood is produced from a bifacial vascular cambium.
- Stained cells corresponding to immature xylem were detected in vascular bundles of flowers and fruits.
- The most obvious manifestation of this is the development of wood, or secondary xylem, from the vascular cambium.
- In addition, the magnitude of growth-associated is similar between xylem and mesophyll and between xylem and epidermis.
- When it shoves its tubelike mouthparts into a plant to suck sap from the xylem, the insect may transmit a deadly plant bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in its saliva.
- At low power magnification, entire radial stem sections were imaged and the area stained by the safranin determined relative to the total amount of xylem tissue.
- The other well-known xylem tapping parasites are the mistletoes.