Planteome: Term Details for "metaxylem" (PO:0000372)

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Term Information

Accession: PO:0000372
Name: metaxylem
Ontology: plant_anatomy
Synonyms: metaxilema (Spanish, exact), portion of metaxylem tissue (exact), 後生木部 (Japanese, exact)
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A portion of primary xylem (PO:0005849) tissue that has as part one or more metaxylem tracheary elements (PO:0025576) embedded in parenchyma (PO:0005421) tissue and may contain xylem fiber cells (PO:0000274). Source: ISBN:0471738433, POC:curators, ISBN:047125208
Comment: Metaxylem has larger tracheary elements (PO:0000290) than the protoxylem (PO:0000272), and develops after the formation of the protoxylem, once elongation of the plant axis (PO:0025004) has completed.
Subset: None
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BFO:0000002 continuant
BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000004 independent continuant
BFO:0000040 material entity
PO:0025131 plant anatomical entity
PO:0009011 plant structure
PO:0009007 portion of plant tissue
PO:0009015 portion of vascular tissue
PO:0005352 xylem
PO:0005849 primary xylem
PO:0000372 metaxylem
PO:0025576 metaxylem tracheary element

Parents of metaxylem (PO:0000372)

subject	relation	object
metaxylem	is_a	primary xylem (PO:0005849)

Children of metaxylem (PO:0000372)

subject	relation	object
metaxylem tracheary element (PO:0025576)	BFO:0000050	metaxylem

PO_GIT: 434