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meristematic apical cell

Term Information

Accession
PO:0030007
Name
meristematic apical cell
Ontology
plant_anatomy
Synonyms
apical cell (exact), apical initial (exact), célula apical (Spanish, exact), 分裂組織の頂端細胞 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A single meristematic cell (PO:0004010) at the tip of a plant structure where apical growth occurs. Source: ISBN:9780473067304, ISBN:0962073342
Comment
Apical cells occur only at the tip of a shoot axis apex, leaf apex, root apex, thallus apex, or protonema in bryophytes and some pteridophytes. Apical growth results from division of a single meristematic cell located at the tip of an apical meristem or plant organ, rather than from a population of meristematic cells located at the tip of an apical meristem. The apical cell may be tetrahedral shaped, with three (in shoots) or four (in roots) cutting faces, or wedge-shaped (lenticular) with two cutting faces (in non-vascular leaves or thalli). An apical cell may be established upon germination of a spore or upon the first cell division of an embryo, or later.
Subset
Pteridophytes
CL
Bryophytes
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Parents of meristematic apical cell (PO:0030007)
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meristematic apical cell [is_a relation] is_a  meristematic cell (PO:0004010)
Children of meristematic apical cell (PO:0030007)
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sporophyte meristematic apical cell (PO:0030015) [is_a relation] is_a  meristematic apical cell
gametophyte meristematic apical cell (PO:0030014) [is_a relation] is_a  meristematic apical cell
shoot meristematic apical cell (PO:0030009) [is_a relation] is_a  meristematic apical cell
PO_GIT
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