The plants used in this small atlas were selected because they were readily available. Chosen due to its easy preparation, temporary histological slides were mounted with hand made sections. These histological slides are easily prepared by students in different classes of Botany.
There are many images grouped by topics:
Plant Cells, Plant Tissues, Stem,
Anatomy, Root Anatomy, Leaf Anatomy,
Evolution and Systematics, Protists
Bryophytes
The structure of xylem and phloem tissue depends on whether the plant is a flowering plant (including dicots and monocots) or a gymnosperm (polycots). The terms dicot, monocot and polycot are summarized in the following table.
The CCRC plant cell wall group is comprised of six independently funded research teams with expertise in polysaccharide chemistry and biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology. The goal of our research is to determine the role of the cell wall in plant growth and development.
The present text tries to comprehend the current status of our knowledge of the possible structural changes in plants suffering from, e.g., genetic disorders, mechanical stresses, injuries, frost, heat, drought and mineral deficiencies and excesses, air pollutants, viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasitic vascular plants, nematodes, or insects.
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Comparative anatomy works on the simple and demonstrable fact that the biological form usually defines function. Human is closest to frugivore animals (fruit eaters), from the anatomic and taxonomic point of view.