Friday, 17 August 2018

Kranz anatomy

The anatomy of leaf of C4 plants is also called 'Kranz Anatomy', because the leaf surrounding each vascular bundle is a sheath of tightly packed,thick walled chloroplast containing cells(bundle sheath) which looks like a ring or wreath. 'Kranz' in German means wreath. The cells of bundle sheath in such plants are therefore also called as Kranz cells.

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