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What is a guard cell?

What is a guard cell? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A kind of specialized cell located in the lower leaf epidermis of plants. Pairs of guard cells surround tiny stomatal airway pores and regulate their opening and closing.
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Fluorescence of guard cell chloroplasts was imaged when plants were at approximately the six-leaf stage.
The guard cell cannot expand because it is held tight in its cellulose ring.
The inner anticlinal wall of the guard cell is the ventral wall.
In the paradermal sections, the cuticle, guard cell length and epidermal cell shapes were examined.
Cellulose microfibrils within the guard cell wall are considered radial if they are oriented in the same way as the dotted lines.
The details of guard cell wall composition and organization are, unfortunately, not known.

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