Planteome: Term Details for "intermediary companion cell" (PO:0025460)

Accession: PO:0025460
Name: intermediary companion cell
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: célula intermediaria acompañante (Spanish, exact), intermediary cell (exact), 中間伴細胞 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A companion cell (PO:0000400) that has dense cytoplasm, a small vacuole, proplastids rather than chloroplasts, and abundant and highly branched plasmodesmata linking it to adjacent mesophyll cells. Source: PMID:21669666, PO_REF:00011
Comment: Intermediary companion cells translocate high concentrations of raffinose-family oligosaccharides and are found in plants that use symplastic phloem loading. Unlike sieve tube elements (PO:0000289), intermediary companion cells retain their nuclei and other organelles at maturity.
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
intermediary companion cell	is_a	companion cell (PO:0000071)

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