Planteome: Term Details for "bulliform cell" (PO:0004001)

Accession: PO:0004001
Name: bulliform cell
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: célula bulliforme (Spanish, exact), 泡状細胞 (Japanese, exact), motor cell (related)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: An enlarged more or less thin-walled leaf pavement cell, present, with other similar cells, in longitudinal rows in leaves of monocots. Source: ISBN:0471245208
Comment: Also called motor cell because of its presumed participation in the mechanism of rolling and unrolling of leaves. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.
Subset: CL
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subject	relation	object
bulliform cell	is_a	leaf pavement cell (PO:0025212)
bulliform cell	BFO:0000050	vascular leaf (PO:0009025)

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