Quiescent centre
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title:
Quiescent centre
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The quiescent centre is a group of cells, up to 1,000 in number, in the form of a hemisphere, with the flat face toward the root tip of vascular plants. It is a region in the apical meristem of a root where cell division proceeds very slowly or not at all, but the cells are capable of resuming meristematic activity when the tissue surrounding them is damaged.
Cells of root apical meristems do not all divide at the same rate. Determinations of relative rates of DNA synthesis show that primary roo
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Group of cells in vascular plants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiescent_centre
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2022-11-06T20:33:41Z
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