Term Information

Accession
PO:0025575
Name
protoxylem tracheary element
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
elemento de traqueida del protoxilema (Spanish, exact), 原生木部仮導管要素 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A primary xylem tracheary element (PO:0025444) with predominately annular or helical secondary wall thickening that are the first formed tracheary elements (PO:0000290) at a particular location. Source: ISBN:0471738433, POC:Laura_Moore
Comment
In a given portion of primary xylem (PO:0005849), protoxylem tracheary elements are generally smaller in size, fewer in number, un-pitted and have less secondary wall material than metaxylem tracheary elements (PO:0025576).
Subset
None
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Parents of protoxylem tracheary element (PO:0025575)
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protoxylem tracheary element [is_a relation] is_a  primary xylem tracheary element (PO:0025444)
protoxylem tracheary element [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  protoxylem (PO:0000272)

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