Plant Tissue Flashcards
§ Derived from shoot and root apical meristems
§ Composed of primary tissues
§ Constitutes the herbaceous parts of a plant
Primary Plant Body
(Herbaceous Body)
A plant that never becomes woody nor covered with bark; often lives for < 1 year; consists only of a primary plant body
Herb
§ Derived from meristems other than apical meristems
§ Composed of secondary tissues: wood and bark
§ Constitutes the woody, bark-covered parts of a
plant
Secondary Plant Body
(Woody Body)
has 1° tissues at its shoot and root tips, and a seedling consists only of 1° tissues. But wood and bark (2° tissues) arise inside the 1° tissues of stems and roots after few mos.
Woody Plant
A group of cells that perform specific function
Tissues
Level of Organisation
(Plants)
Cells
Tissues
Organ
Organ System
Organism
Tissues Classifications
(Based on stage of development)
- embryonic or meristematic
- permanent
Tissues Classification
(Based on composition)
- Simple
- Complex
Meristematic Tissues
[based on initiating cells]
(Origin & Development)
- Promeristem (Primordial meristem)
- Primary Meristem
- Secondary Meristem
Meristematic Tissues
[based on position in the plant body]
(Location)
- Apical
- Intercallary
- Lateral
Meristematic Tissues
(Function)
- Protoderm (Dermatogen)
- Procambium (Plerome)
- Fundamental / Ground Meristem (Periblem)
Permanent Tissues
(Simple Permanent)
[Ground Tissue system]
- Parenchyma
- Collenchyma
- Sclerenchyma
Permanent Tissues
(Complex Permanent)
[Vascular tissue system]
- Xylem (Primary)
- Phloem (Primary)
Tissues where the cells are in the mitotic state
Meristematic
The Length (Tip)
Apical Meristem
Elongation
Intercalary Meristem
Thickness
Lateral Meristem
- 1° Vascular Tissue
(Vascular Tissue system) - Central Cylinder
Procambium
- Ground Tissue
(Ground Tissue system) - Future cortex
Ground Meristem
- Epidermis
(Dermal Tissue system) - Embryonic epidermis
Protoderm
- cells are stable, no longer dividing
- It is differentiated into 2 types
Permanent
- composed of one type of cells
- differentiates into dermal or protective and ground or fundamental
- Classified based on the nature of cell wall
Simple Permanent tissue
- composed of different kinds of cells but perform similar function
Complex permanent tissue
(Simple Permanent Tissue Types)
A mass of parenchyma cells; most common type of tissue constituting all soft parts of a plant
Parenchyma Tissue
(Simple Permanent Tissue Types)
- most common type of cell
- Has thin primary walls; large vacuole
- active metabolically and alive at maturity
- Numerous subtypes are specialized for particular tasks.
Parenchyma Cells
Parenchyma cells of geranium
Nucleus (pink
Nucleolus (red)
Cell walls
Vacuoles
(Parenchyma Cells)
- involved in photosynthesis: chloroplast
- the thinness of the wall allows light and carbon dioxide to pass through to the chloroplasts
Chlorenchyma Cells
(Parenchyma Cells)
- mediate the short-distance transport of material by means of a large, extensive plasma membrane capable of holding numerous molecular pumps
Transfer Cells
(Parenchyma Cells)
- secrete nectar, fragrances, mucilage, resins, and oils
- contain few chloroplasts but have ↑ amounts of dictyosomes and endoplasmic reticulum
Glandular Cells
(Parenchyma Cells)
- Specialized in gas exchange; large intercellular spaces
Aerenchyma
(Parenchyma Cells)
- Specialized in gas exchange; large intercellular spaces
Aerenchyma
(Simple Permanent Tissue)
- a mass of collenchyma cells
Collenchyma Tissue
(Simple Permanent Tissue)
- Unevenly thickened primary walls (thin in some areas, thick most often in the corners)
- Typically alive at maturity
- Provide plasticity, the ability to be deformed by pressure or tension and to retain the new shape even if the pressure or tension ceases.
- present in elongating shoot tips as a layer just under the epidermis or as bands located next to vascular bundles
- usually produced only in shoot tips and young petioles
Collenchyma Cells
- Masses of collenchyma cells often occur in the outer parts of stems and leaf stalks.
- Collenchyma forms a band about 8 to 12 cells thick.
- The primary wall is thicker at the corners; No intercellular spaces are present
Peperomia Stem
(Simple Permanent Tissue)
- a mass of sclerenchyma cells
Sclerenchyma Tissue