vessel element

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vessel element

A dead, elongated cell in the xylem of flowering plants, having perforated end walls through which water flows.

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Moreover, variance analysis confirmed significant differences in fibre length and vessel element length between species that are small shrubs and trees taller than 10m.

Wood anatomy and its relation to plant size and latitude in Buddleja L. (Buddlejaceae)/Anatomia de la madera de Buddleja L. (Buddlejaceae) y su relacion con el tamano de la planta y la latitud/Anatomia da madeira de Buddleja L. (Buddlejaceae) e sua relacao com o tamanho da planta e a latitude

Core samples (5 mm in diameter) were collected from three trees in each group to measure the wood properties (basic density and compressive strength parallel to the grain in green condition) and anatomical characteristics (wood fiber cell diameter, wood fiber cell wall thickness, wood fiber length, vessel diameter, and vessel element length).

The effects of radial growth rate on wood properties and anatomical characteristics and an evaluation of the xylem maturation process in a tropical fast-growing tree species, gmelina arborea

gardneriana showed that the flooding of the substrate induced the decrease of some anatomical structures (Table 3) such as: width of the cortex and diameter of the central cylinder of root and diameter of the vessel element of root and stem.

Flooding avoidance Triplaris gardneriana Wedd. (Polygonaceae): growth and morpho-anatomical aspects/Evitacao do alagamento em Triplaris gardneriana Wedd. (Polygonaceae): crescimento e aspectos morfo-anatomicos

Imperforate tracheary element lengths (292-230 [micro]m) as well as vessel element length decrease as the stem widens.

Wood anatomy of Brassicales: new information, new evolutionary concepts

Abbreviations used in the figures of this study: A = aperture; AP = appressorium; B = pit border; F = fiber; H = hyphae; L = lipid bodies; M = margo of pit membrane; P = parenchyma cell; PA = perforation in end wall of vessel element; T = torus; VT = vascular tracheid.

Hyphal growth in wood of Osmanthus armatus

Similar to the blood vessel element, respiratory tract elements were also 1-D elements.

An improved thermal model of the human body

For clarity in this article, we use the term "vessel length" to mean the length of a single vessel element. In order to guide rotation-specific utilization, the variation of these anatomical features with tree age was studied as well at the ages of 3, 6, 9, and 12 years.

Within-tree and tree-age variation of selected anatomical properties of the wood of Ugandan-grown Eucalyptus grandis

Vessel element length for the family has a range from 95 to 197 pm (145 pm for the family as a whole).

Wood anatomy of Brassicales: new information, new evolutionary concepts

Because the symplesiomorphic conditions of all of these were considered statistically linked, Bailey and his co-workers considered that any one of the symplesiomorphic character states (e.g., diffuse axial parenchyma, more numerous bars per perforation plate) could be substituted for vessel element length as a "measuring stick" for phyletic advancement.

Monocot xylem revisited: new information, new paradigms

The tracheid-long scalariform-short simple vessel element transformation series has been invoked over and over at many phylogenetic scales.