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The common bottle cork is a product of:
Option: 1
Dermatogen
Option: 2
Phellogen
Option: 3
Periderm
Option: 4
Plerome
Answers (1)
- Periderm develops through the activity of cork cambium or phellogen.
- Cork cambium or phellogen is the secondary meristem that develops generally from the collenchymatous cells of hypodermis, sometimes from the cells of the epidermis (apple), pericycle (Cimatis), phloem (vitis).
- Phellogen gives rise to cork or phellem on the outer side and secondary cortex of phelloderm on the inner side.
- Phellem or cork is the dead tissue with suberised cell walls. It is impermeable to water and is used commercially.
- Quercus suber is commercial cork.
- Secondary cortex or phelloderm is living tissue. It stores food and replaces the damaged primary cortex.
- Phellem, phellogen and phelloderm are called periderm.
- Periderm and fragments of epidermis form the protective tissues in an old dicot stem.
phellogen given rise to phellem which is used as commercial cork.
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