Claim · model-written summary
Plants with kidney-shaped guard cells rarely have subsidiary cells except Commelina communis.
- Taxon
- Commelina communis L.
Commelina communise0 - Outcome
- subsidiary cellse0
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Verbatim
e0“The plants of kidney-shaped guard cells rarely have subsidiary cells except Commelina communis L.”
Title
Misconceptions and Truths of Morphological Characteristics in Plant Stomata
Dae Jae Kim; Joon Sang Lee Journal of Life Science 2017. doi:10.5352/jls.2017.27.2.241
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- Observation In corn, guard cells are dumbbell-shaped.
- Observation The dumbbell guard-cell type is found only in a few monocots including Poaceae and Cyperaceae.
- Observation Kidney-shaped guard cells occur in every dicot and many monocots.
- Observation Dumbbell-shaped guard cells always have subsidiary cells.
- Observation The two guard-cell types cannot be divided according to monocots versus dicots.
- Observation In Sedum sarmentosum, guard cells are long and narrow lips-type.
- Observation In Tradescantia virginiana, guard cells are half-moon shaped.
- Observation Kidney-shaped types differ among plants, whereas dumbbell-shaped types are almost constant.