In the monocot stem, the vascular bundles are scattered throughout the ground tissue. The bundles are smaller than in the dicot stem, and distinct layers of xylem, phloem and sclerenchyma cannot be discerned. You must be logged in to post a comment. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. Organismal Biology.
Skip to content. The massive trunk of this Chilean wine palm Jubaea chilensis has grown in girth due to the production of new vascular bundles from the primary and secondary thickening meristems. Palm Wood T he scattered vascular bundles containing large porous vessels are very conspicuous in palm wood. In fact, the vascular bundles are also preserved in petrified palm. Cross section of the trunk of the native California fan palm Washingtonia filifera showing scattered vascular bundles.
The large cells pores in the vascular bundles are vessels. The palm was washed down the steep canyon during the flash flood of September The fibrous strands are vascular bundles composed of lignified cells. Right: Cross section of the trunk of a California fan palm Washingtonia filifera showing scattered vascular bundles that appear like dark brown dots. The dot pattern also shows up in the petrified Washingtonia palm left. The pores in the petrified palm wood are the remains of vessels.
The large, circular tunnel in the palm wood right is caused by the larva of the bizarre palm-boring beetle Dinapate wrightii shown at bottom of photo.
An adult beetle is shown in the next photo. Through a specialized heating process, the natural sugar in the wood is caramelized to produce the honey color. Vascular bundles typical of a woody monocot are clearly visible on the smooth cross section.
The transverse surface of numerous lignified tracheids and fibers is actually harder than maple. Much of the earth's coal reserves originated from massive deposits of carbonized plants from this era. Petrified trunks from Brazil reveal cellular details of an extinct tree fern Psaronius brasiliensis that lived about million years ago, before the age of dinosaurs. The petrified stem of Psaronius does not have concentric growth rings typical of conifers and dicot angiosperms.
Instead, it has a central stele composed of numerous arcs that represent the vascular bundles of xylem tissue. Surrounding the stem are the bases of leaves. In life, Psaronius probably resembled the present-day Cyathea tree ferns of New Zealand. A petrified trunk from the extinct tree fern Psaronius brasiliensis. The central stele region contains arc-shaped vascular bundles of xylem tissue. The stem is surrounded by leaf bases which formed the leaf crown of this fern, similar to present-day Cyathea tree ferns of New Zealand.
This petrified stem has been cut and polished to make a pair of bookends. A well-preserved stem section from the extinct tree fern Psaronius brasiliensis. Note the central stele region containing arcs of xylem tissue vascular bundles.
The structure of this stem is quite different from the concentric growth rings of conifers and dicots, and from the scattered vascular bundles of palms. References Bailey, L. Hortus Third. Macmillan Publishing Company, Inc. Chrispeels, M. Plants, Food, and People. Freeman and Company, San Francisco. Heiser, C. Hill, A. Economic Botany. McGraw-Hill, New York. Klein, R. Harper and Row, Publishers, New York. Langenheim, J. Plant Biology and its Relation to Human Affairs.
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This difference in the organization of the vascular tissues has implications for the way the plant grows. In monocots, xylem and phloem are organized in vascular bundles scattered throughout the stem. As the plant grows, monocot stems generate new vascular bundles for the new tissue.
Monocot stems in general possess a simpler arrangement than that found in dicots; the main elements of the stem are merely the vascular bundles and the pith used for nutrient storage that surrounds them. The vascular system found in dicots is somewhat more complex than that found in monocots. In the dicot stem, the vascular bundles are arranged in a ring, with pith concentrated at the core of the stem, rather than being scattered throughout the plant interior. In each vascular bundle, the xylem and phloem are separated by a substance called vascular cambium.
As the plant grows, existing bundles grow larger rather than new vascular bundles being generated, as in monocots. The vascular cambium operates by producing new xylem and phloem cells, which in turn pushes the old cells outward and forces the bundle to grow.
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