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What is an aerenchyma?

What is an aerenchyma? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (botany) A spongy, airy tissue found especially in the roots of aquatic plants.
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There were no visible differences in the development of endodermis, exodermis and aerenchyma between the two varieties and growth conditions.
It has been widely suggested that phellem, a corky outer layer derived from the cork cambium may function as aerenchyma, but until now no-one had tested that hypothesis.
Programmed cell death also takes place in the cortex of adventitious roots to form aerenchyma.
Our interpretations of aerenchyma do not agree for all plants, especially for some species with honeycomb aerenchyma, but they do for most schizogeny and lysigeny.
Fusoid cells are characteristically found only in bamboos, and have been considered as aerenchyma tissues.
In plant roots with other types of aerenchyma, lateral root primordia or bases are always surrounded by solid parenchymatous tissue.

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