Planteome: Term Details for "ordinary companion cell" (PO:0025459)

Accession: PO:0025459
Name: ordinary companion cell
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: célula ordinaria acompañante (Spanish, exact), regular companion cell (exact), standard companion cell (exact), 通常の？伴細胞 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A companion cell (PO:0000400) that lacks cell wall invaginations and has few or no plasmodesmata connecting it to adjacent mesophyll cells. Source: PMID:21669666, PO_REF:00011
Comment: Found in plants that use apoplastic phloem loading. Unlike sieve tube elements (PO:0000289), ordinary companion cells retain their nuclei and other organelles at maturity.
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
ordinary companion cell	is_a	companion cell (PO:0000071)

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