Term Information

Accession
PO:0006206
Name
palisade mesophyll cell
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
célula del mesófilo en empalizada (Spanish, exact), 柵状葉肉細胞 (Japanese, exact), palisade parenchyma cell (related)
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Elongated chlorenchymatous cell oriented perpendicular to the leaf surface and which is active in photosynthesis. Source: Gramene:Pankaj_Jaiswal
Comment
Usually found in the adaxil/upper part of the leaf mesophyll. 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
TraitNet
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Parents of palisade mesophyll cell (PO:0006206)
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palisade mesophyll cell [is_a relation] is_a  mesophyll cell (PO:0004006)
palisade mesophyll cell [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  palisade mesophyll (PO:0005648)

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