pericycle

The pericycle is a single layer of cells surrounding the vascular tissue.

Syncytium is formed in pericycle and endodermal cells of the plant.

Branch roots develop from cells of the pericycle.

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The pericycle is located between the endodermis and phloem in plant roots.

In many of these plants the endodermis is later discarded, together with the cortex, when the periderm develops from the pericycle.

Monocot roots rarely branch, but can, and this branch will originate from the pericycle.

In dicot stems, the pericycle strengthens the stem and provides protection for the vascular bundles.

Sclerenchymatous cells mainly occur in hypodermis, pericycle, secondary xylem and phloem.

In roots, the cork cambium originates in the pericycle, a component of the vascular cylinder.

Since it has the capacity to produce lateral roots, the pericycle also, therefore, regulates the formation of lateral roots.

In plants undergoing secondary growth, the pericycle contributes to the vascular cambium often diverging into a cork cambium.

These include vascular tissue, in some cases ground tissue (pith) and a pericycle, which, if present, defines the outermost boundary of the stele.

Parenchyma cells in between the epidermis and pericycle in a root or shoot constitute the cortex, and tissue specialised for food storage commonly is parenchyma.

In stems the cortex is between the epidermis layer and the phloem, in roots the inner layer is not phloem but the pericycle.

Among other things, this technique is used to isolate specific cell types (e.g. guard cells from leaves, pericycle cells from roots) for further investigation such as transcriptomics.

A cortex consisting of Hypodermis (collenchyma cells) and Endodermis (starch containing cells)is present above the pericycle and vascular bundles.

The pericycle is a cylinder of parenchyma or sclerenchyma cells that lies just inside the endodermis and is the outer most part of the stele of plants.

In both cases the infection leads to cell divisions in the pericycle and the formation of a new organ consisting of several lobes anatomically similar to a lateral root.

It moves these solutes from epidermis cells through the cortex into the endodermis and eventually the pericycle, where it can be moved into the xylem for long distance transport.

Reniform nematode can causes hypertrophy in the pericycle cells of root seedlings and in the periderm cells of the roots of 4-5 week old plants [7].

Nodule lobe primordia develop in the pericycle, endodermis or cortex during the development of the prenodule and finally the bacterium enters the cells of these to infect the new nodule.

If the pericycle is superficial and the cortex is retained either the endodermis is stretched or crushed or it keeps pace with the expansion of the vascular cylinder by radial anticlinal divisions, the new walls developing Casparian strips in continuity with the old ones.

When dissected, the arrangement of the cells in a root is root hair, epidermis, epiblem, cortex, endodermis, pericycle and lastly the vascular tissue in the centre of a root to transport the water absorbed by the root to other places of the plant.

Penetration is stopped when lips reach the endodermis, resulting in formation of a trophic site that consist of a syncytium structure, which forms from an endodermal cell and enlarge by incorporation of adjacent parenchyma cells of the pericycle and vascular parenchyma [8].