Meristematic

Meristematic cells at the shoot region are more active during warm period. Sunlight provides more energy for cell divisions, enhance photosynthesis and therefore more food to produce new morphological parts. No wonder tropics ...

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... me know what you think. http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/SCI_ED/grade10/plant_tissues/primary.htm I understand there is some disagreement as to which meristematic tissues - primary or secondary - contribute more to annual plant growth in width. In the woody plants it is unanimously secondary (or lateral) ...

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"As for the ground meristem, procambium and protoderm i don't think mitosis occurs there" - yes it does! Those tissues are primary meristematic tissues, you can think of them as adult stem cells.

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... that ‘grow’ is limited to the number of cells produced by mitosis. Mature differentiated cells rarely (if ever) ‘grow’ much. Also, the amount of meristematic tissue is quite large and widely distributed throughout plant. Most plant cells can dedifferentiate to become meristem cells as well when ...

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... I don't agree (cell wall will not stretch!) In regard to root tips: major collections of constantly dividing cells are stem cells (called meristematic cells in plants) and root tips contain root apical meristem. Root tips are preferable for studying mitosis because they are easy to excise/stain ...

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