• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.281-288
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• 1995

The progressive differentiation of interfascicular cambium from residual meristem in the first internode of Ginkgo biloba seedlings was elucidated by light and electron microscopy. The cells of residual meristem were small and homogeneous and heterogeneous in their arrangement but those of the adjacent cortex and pith were large and homogeneous. Some interprocambial residual meristem progressively became elongated and vacuolated during the process of the differentiation. In tangential section, residual meristem composed of long and short cells. The eventual interfascicular cambium had long fusiform initials and short ray initials. Storage materials in the cells progressively disappeared from the interprocambial residual meristem and were absent in early interfascicular cambium. Both the radial and tangential walls of cells of the interprocambial residual meristem were almost the same, but the radial wall became progressively thicker than the tangential wall during differentiation of interfascicular cambium. From these results, it is clear that interfascicular cambium is gradually differentiated from residual meristem.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.273-281
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• 1992

The origin of the interfascicular cambium from residual meristem can be elucidated by tangential and transverse observation. It is clear that there is structural distinction between interprocambial and interfascicular residual meristem and adjacent parenchyma in both the transverse and tangential view. Consequently, the residual meristem does not convert into parenchyma but, rather, becomes interfascicular cambium. In tangential view, the homogeneous structure of interfascicular residual meristem at an early stage changes gradually into a heterogeneous one at a later stage, with long and short cells from which fusiform and ray initials originate respectively. However, the homogeneous structure of parenchyma adjacent interfascicular residual meristem does not change into a heterogeneous one but remains the same at all stages of development. Therefore, the interfascicular cambium has a direct ontogenetic continuity with the residual meristem, and does not have its secondary origin from differentiated parenchyma. Furthermore, the ontogenetic pattern of the interfascicular cambium is almost the same as that of fascicular cambium.ambium.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.31-40
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• 1990

Procambium developed in the histogenetical zone below the marginal meristem. The development of procambium is correlated with the developmental stage of the leaf. As long as the marginal cells are crescent-shaped, the first-order procambium develops. When the marginal cell becomes wedge-shaped, the higher order procambium appears. The reticulated venation is developed through forking and anastomosis. The meshes of the first order enlarge in the process of leaf growth and the meshes of the second and third order develop in the meshes of the first-order through the differentiation of the residual meristem. Therefore, the venation is hierachically arranged and is as recognizable from the thickening of the veins. The outermost vein is produced parallel to the leaf margin, in which the differences between the costal and intercostal parts of the marginal meristem are removed. The endodermis and pericycle differentiate from the same mother cell. The procambium and sclerenchyma originate from a common source during the first developmental stage. A small cellular cluster lies within the parenchyma at the upper and lower sides of the procambial trace and differentiates into sclerenchyma.