primary meristem


Also found in: Medical, Encyclopedia.
Related to primary meristem: secondary meristem

primary meristem

n.
One of the three kinds of meristematic tissue (procambium, protoderm, and ground meristem) that are derived from an apical meristem of a vascular plant.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
According to Diggle and DeMason (1983b), the transition of primary meristem into secondary meristem in the monocotyledonous species is analogous to the transition of procambium to vascular cambium in the woody dicotyledonous stem.
Lateral meristems responsible for secondary growth of the monocotyledons: a survey of the state of the art
During this process the cambium, which normally functions as a secondary meristem, acquires the functional characters of a primary meristem, the apical root meristem.
In vitro rhizogenesis: histoanatomy of Cedrela odorata (Meliaceae) microcuttings
(6,7) In our experiments, we confirmed the appearance of such giant cells in primary meristems of the zone of cell division in the root, where the cell differentiation did not take place.
The problem of giant cells in biology

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?