Cambial Ontogeny (Storying, Paedomorphosis, Other Changes)

Abstract

We cannot fully understand phenomena such as raylessness, cambial variants (“anomalous secondary growth”), and storying by viewing the end products alone. Even if one can characterize these end products with appropriate terminology, degrees of intermediacy in expression (e.g., storying of all cell types or tissues in a wood vs. storying of some) and the interrelationships between these expressions can only be meaningfully interpreted when placed in an ontogenetic context.KeywordsTracheary ElementSecondary XylemVessel ElementAxial ParenchymaLiriodendron TulipiferaThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.