Planteome: Term Details for "compression wood" (PO:0025473)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0025473
Name: compression wood
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A portion of reaction wood (PO:0025472) found on the lower side of a shoot axis (PO:0025029) that is or was angled away from vertical and that has as parts heavily lignified tracheids (PO:0000301) with a specialized S2 layer that contains more lignin and has a larger (more horizontal) microfibril angle. Source: ISBN:3540411739, PO_REF:00012
Comment: Develops as a response to gravity (compression) and may function in restoring a stem (PO:0009047) or branch (PO:0025073) that is leaning to its original position. Found in gymnosperms.
Subset: Gymnosperms
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to compression wood.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to compression wood.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for compression wood.
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BFO:0000002 continuant
BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000004 independent continuant
BFO:0000040 material entity
PO:0025131 plant anatomical entity
PO:0009011 plant structure
PO:0009007 portion of plant tissue
PO:0009015 portion of vascular tissue
PO:0025409 secondary vascular tissue
PO:0005352 xylem
PO:0005848 secondary xylem
PO:0025472 reaction wood
PO:0025473 compression wood

Parents of compression wood (PO:0025473)

subject	relation	object
compression wood	is_a	reaction wood (PO:0025472)

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Parents of compression wood (PO:0025473)

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