Secondary Growth in Plants
Secondary Growth in Plants: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Vascular Cambium, Formation of Cambial Ring, Activity of the Cambial Ring, Secondary Xylem, Secondary Phloem, Spring Wood, Autumn Wood, Phellogen, Periderm, Bark, Cork Cambium, Types of Cambium, etc.
Important Questions on Secondary Growth in Plants
Cork cambium results in the formation of cork which becomes impermeable to water due to the accumulation of
Fascicular cambium is the cambium of a vascular bundle of:
Cycas stem shows:
Phellem and phellogen form cambial ring.
Cambium is a type of meristem that helps in the elongation of stem.
The secondary phloem is formed from the vascular cambium.
How is secondary phloem formed?
What are the cells of the vascular cambium that cut off towards the periphery matures into, whether secondary xylem or secondary phloem?
The amount of secondary phloem formed is less than the amount of secondary xylem.
Define secondary phloem.
_____ meristem enables the plant to undergo secondary growth.
Procambium gives rise to
Mark the incorrect statement among the following:
Cambium is a type of lateral meristem.
Name the wood in which xylem vessels are uniform in size, whether it is Ring porous wood or Diffuse porous wood.
What is the name of gymnosperm wood?
Name the darker and harder portion of secondary xylem in an older dicot stem that cannot conduct water, whether it is Alburnum or Duramen.
In which season latewood is formed, whether it is Autumn or Spring?
Periderm is formed by
Name the non-technical term used for all the tissues exterior to the vascular cambium.
