Claim · model-written summary
In Avena saliva, silica occurred primarily in cell walls and lumina and much less on the outer epidermal surface.
- Taxon
- Avena salivae0
- Organ / stage
- internodal epidermal cellse0
- Outcome
- silica is deposited primarily in cell walls and cell lumina, and to a much lesser extent, on the outer epidermal surfacee0
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Verbatim
e0“internodal epidermal cells of Avena saliva (Gramineae) where silica is deposited primarily in cell walls and cell lumina, and to a much lesser extent, on the outer epidermal surface”
Title
ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS OF SILICA IN EPIDERMAL CELLS OF EQUISETUM
Peter B. Kaufman; Wilbur C. Bigelow; Rudolf Schmid; et al. American Journal of Botany 1971. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1971.tb09978.x
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Silica formed discrete knobs and rosettes on the epidermal surface of E. arvense.
- Observation Silica was distributed essentially uniformly on and in the outer epidermal cell walls of E. hyemale var. affine.
- Observation Silicon was absent from intercalary meristematic cells of E. aruense.
- Observation Silicon was present in significant quantities in mature epidermal cells above the intercalary meristem of E. aruense.
- Mechanism The authors infer that silica deposition is very rapid in Equisclum and Avena.