Secondary Growth in Plants
Secondary Growth in Plants: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as lenticels, formation of cambial ring, secondary xylem, secondary phloem and primary xylem.
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:

Is phelloderm formed by de differentiation?

What do you mean by phelloderm ?

What is the difference between Phellem and Phelloderm?


What are the similarities between primary and secondary xylem?

What is primary and secondary xylem?

Which are the two types of primary xylem?

What is primary xylem?

Phellem and phellogen form cambial ring.

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.

Name the wood in which xylem vessels are uniform in size, whether it is Ring porous wood or Diffuse porous wood.

Fill in the blank with the correct option from the bracket.
Jute fibres are obtained from the _____. (secondary phloem, xylem, endoderms, pith)

Phellem is made up of living cells.

The tissues from which cambium ring is originated in dicot root and dicot stem.
