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Senescence as an active developmental cellular process in the growth and functioning of a flowering plant, is indicated in

Updated On: Jun 23, 2024
  • annual plants
  • floral parts
  • vessels and tracheid differentiation
  • leaf abscission.
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Senescence is the process of ageing which is caused by cellular breakdown, increased metabolic failure, increased entropy etc. It occurs in the period between reproductive maturity and death. Cell division followed by cell enlargement and differentiation, precede the actual separation. Senescence of cell in distal region lead to lignification of cell wall. Tylose formation in tracheary element and callose deposition in sieve elements which occur in advance of abscission (i.e. senescence) finally, lead to actual separation. Thus, vessels and tracheid (trachery elements) differentiation indicates senescence.
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Plant Growth and Development

Growth in Plants:

Plants have the distinctive ability to grow throughout their life. The meristem cells present there in the roots and shoot apical lead to the primary growth of the plant. The primary growth which happens or takes place at the tips of the stem and roots of the plant contributes to the elongation of the plant along its axis.

In the later stages of growth in plants, the growth in dicotyledonous, vascular cambium, gymnosperms, and cork-cambium are also caused by the existence of meristems in them. These intercalary meristems are put up to increase the girth of the organs of the plant in which they are active. Such type of growth is commonly known as secondary growth.

Many parameters such as area, volume, fresh weight, cell number, dry weight, length, etc are utilized to measure the growth in plants as increase in the amount of protoplasm is responsible for the growth in plants.

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