How Do Plant Tissues and Organs Originate?

How does a single seed become a gargantuan tree.

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2 Patterns of plant growth:
a) basal-apical axis
b) radial axis
A) basal-apical axis: from shoot to root (upwards, downwards)
b) radial axis: concentric arrangement of tissue systems (outwards)
Meristems (growth)
What: cluster of undifferentiated cells
where: root and shoot tipfunc.: 1) postembryonic development, 2) form organs throughout lifetime
Plant body Tissue Systems
1)dermal2)vascular3)ground
Dermal Tissue: forms epidermis, outer layer of the plant body, usually 1 cell thick
Charac.: small, round, small/no central vacuole
-can differentiate into 3 structures: -stomatal guard cells: form stomata (gas x-chng)
-trichomes: aka leaf hairs for protec.against leaf hairs and solar radiation
-root hairs: inc. root surface area--> greater uptake of water and minerals

-aboveground epi. cells secrete protective extracellular cuticle made of cutin
-limits water loss, reflects solar radiation, barrier against pathogens
Ground Tissue: all tissue between dermal and vascular tissues
Func: storage, support, and photosynthesis
-makes up most of plant body
-3 types of cells in ground tissue
-parenchyma
-collenchyma
-sclerenchyma
Parenchyma Cells
Large vaculoes
thin cell walls (only primary cell wall, share middle lamella)
roles: photosynthesis and storage
Collenchyma Cells (bending)
Resemble Parenchyma cells
provide flexible support
primary cell walls thick at corners (b/c of depositions of pectin)
flexible
Sclerenchyma Cells
Thickned 2ndry cell walls for support
programmed cell death (so start supporting when dead)2 types sclerenchyma:
a) fibers: rigid support, organized in bundles
b) sclereids: pack together densely
Vascular Tissue: plumbing/ transport tissue of the plant
2 constituent tissues:
-xylem: distributes water and mineral ions from roots to shoot
-phloem: transport, support, and storage
-gets E by transporting carbohydrates from sources to sinks
Plant growth
= indeterminate
will continue to grow as long as plant lives
Primary Growth
= lengthening of roots and shoots by production of new roots and shoots through branching
Secondary Growth (only in woody plants)
= increase in girth
Apical Meristems
Orchestrate primary growth = primary plant body
growth due to cell division, cell enlargement (verticle elongation)
Lateral Meristems
Orchestrate secondary growth
2 types lat. meri.:
a) vascular cambium
b) cork cambium