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Chapter 10 - The vascular cambium: structure and function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Charles B. Beck
Charles B. Beck
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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It is difficult to overemphasize the importance of the vascular cambium which produces secondary xylem and secondary phloem. In the following two chapters we shall discuss in detail the structure, functions, and the importance to the plant of these tissues which also have great significance for mankind. Wood (i.e., secondary xylem) is a material of which the buildings in which we live and work are constructed. It is the source of the paper on which we write, on which newspapers, magazines, and books are printed, and of many synthetic fabrics such as rayon and nylon of which our clothes are made, to name only a few of its many uses. The phloem is of the utmost importance as the tissue through which photosynthate is transported from the leaves to sites of utilization or storage in the plant. It is the availability of photosynthate which makes possible the development of nutritious, edible parts of plants, such as fruits, nuts and grains, bulbs, tubers, other edible roots, and leaves, etc., the source of so much of the food supply of humans and other organisms. It is important, therefore, that we know more about the detailed structure and activity of the vascular cambium, a lateral meristem of such great significance.

Structure of the vascular cambium

It is generally agreed that the vascular cambium is composed of a layer of cells only one cell thick, and that all of these cells are meristematic cambial initials from which cells of the secondary xylem and secondary phloem are derived.

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An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development
Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century
 , pp. 166 - 183
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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