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Water containing cavities in vascular bundles are found in :

Option: 1

Sunflower


Option: 2

Maize


Option: 3

Cycas


Option: 4

Pinus


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  • The vascular bundles of a monocot plant lack cambium, which means that they are closed, collateral, or leptocentric and conjoint.
  • Maize is the only monocot among the available options. Since pinus and cycas are gymnosperms, they are not included in the monocot and dicot categories. Despite being a dicot, the sunflower is an angiosperm.
  • In vascular heaps of maize, xylem parenchyma cells and the lowermost proto-xylem vessels break down to shape schizo-lysigenous depression (water-containing cavity known as a proto-xylem hole or lysigenous cavity or lacuna or Proto-xylem cavity. There may be no protophloem found in smaller vascular bundles of the maize (Zea mays).


Hence, the correct answer is option 2.
 

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