Advertisement
Advertisement
vascular bundle
noun
- a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
vascular bundle
noun
- a longitudinal strand of vascular tissue in the stems and leaves of higher plants
vascular bundle
- A strand of primary tissues found within the stem of a plant and consisting of xylem and phloem, along with cambium. The vascular bundles develop from the procambium of the growing stem. In the monocotyledons, vascular bundles are found in complex arrangements dispersed throughout the stem. In eudicotyledons, they are arranged in a ring, with the xylem of each bundle on the inside and the phloem on the outside.
- Also called fibrovascular bundle
- See also fascicular cambium
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of vascular bundle1
Example Sentences
The stem is star-shaped rather than circular; the vascular bundles are scattered in the lobes of the star-shaped body and absent in the arcs.
The XPower system, which attaches to a tractor, kills plants in less than a second by pulsing electricity through them to destroy the vascular bundles that transport water and nutrients.
Photographed by David Maitland at 200 times life size, the image is a slice through the ‘vascular bundles’ that plants use to transport fluids through their tissues.
The beautiful patterns are where the vascular bundles of the plant — the tubes in the tree that carry water and sugars — used to connect.
The cutting off of the vascular bundles and disturbance of the water supply only partly explain the premature fall.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse