Planteome: Term Details for "heartwood" (PO:0004512)

Accession: PO:0004512
Name: heartwood
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: duramen (Spanish, exact), 心材 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A portion of secondary xylem (PO:0005848) that lacks living secondary xylem parenchyma cells (PO:0004525). Source: POC:curators, ISBN:0471245208
Comment: Heartwood has ceased to function in storage and conduction, and the reserve materials have been removed or converted into heartwood substances. It is generally darker colored than sapwood (PO:0004513) and is found in the center of a shoot axis (PO:0025029) or root (PO:0009005), interior to the sapwood. Heartwood forms at the end of a cell death stage of secondary xylem (PO:0025466).
Subset: TraitNet
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subject	relation	object
heartwood	is_a	secondary xylem (PO:0005848)
heartwood	BFO:0000050	plant axis (PO:0025004)

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