Vascular differentiation in the pear root
Vascular differentiation in the pear root
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梨根部维管束分化
DOI:
10.3733/hilg.v15n03p299
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发表时间:
1943
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通讯作者:
K. Esau
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作者:
K. Esau
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Introduction
The present paper deals with the development of the root of Pyrus communis L., with special attention to the vascular tissues. Though considerable information
is available on root structure of herbaceous plants (Hayward, 1938); (Esau, 1940),3 only one rather complete account of tissue differentiation in a root of a woody species
appears to exist in modern botanical literature (Hayward and Long, 1942). The need for such accounts in the teaching of plant anatomy, especially in agricultural
institutions, is obvious.
The present problem was selected also because of the writer’s interest in the differentiation
of the phloem tissue in different organs of seed plants. Since many studies have been
made on the phloem of roots of herbaceous plants (review by Esau, 1943), it seemed timely to add some data on the ontogeny of this tissue in a woody root.
Materials and Methods
The root material used in preparing the permanent slides and the photomicrographs
was obtained from trees grown in a culture solution by the Plant Nutrition division
at Berkeley. The material was killed in a formalin-acetic-alcohol fixing fluid and
imbedded in paraffin after ordinary dehydration and clearing in mixtures of ethyl
alcohol and xylene.
The roots grown in the culture solution were compared with soil grown roots from young
trees 5 to 6 inches high grown from seeds of the Winter Nelis variety. The latter
roots were examined in free-hand sections.