FORESTRY
PLANT AND WOOD ANATOMY
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Question
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the wood of the tree
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the bark of the tree
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the leaves of the tree
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the roots of the tree
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Detailed explanation-1: -In woody plants, cork cambium is the outermost lateral meristem. It produces cork cells, which contain a waxy substance that can repel water. The phloem together with the cork cells form the bark, which protects the plant against physical damage and helps reduce water loss.
Detailed explanation-2: -C: The cambium cell layer is the growing part of the trunk. It annually produces new bark and new wood in response to hormones that pass down through the phloem with food from the leaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -The water-transporting tracheary elements rely on a rapid cell death programme, with hydrolysis of cell contents taking place for the most part, if not entirely, after vacuolar bursting, while the xylem fibres disintegrate cellular contents at a slower pace, well before cell death.