BIO330H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gilia, Meristem, Dicotyledon
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Growth and reproduction: modular growth and clonality repeating part tolerant to herbivory; animal eats a part of the tissue, it will probably just grow it back. Apical meristems produce more modules; result in elongation cambium results in diameter increase (in dicots) Meristems and associated tissues are critical tissues. Damaging can seriously impede future growth, recovery. Fly lays eggs inside meristem and has completely messed up the growth of the plant. Disrupting conducting tissue food is largely bark, cambium. Many of the buds below shoot apex can be activated and lead can change plant structure to more flowering. Scarlet gilia occurs in western us; deer love eating it but plants who survive deer grazing, because stem that was removed is often replaced by several more stems. Best measure of plant success may not be absolute measure of growth but relative growth.
