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Laticiferous tissue short note

Answer 1

These tissues consist of thin walled, greatly elongated and much branched ducts containing a milky or yellowish colored juice known as latex. They contain numerous nuclei which lie embedded in the thin lining layer of protoplasm. They irregularly distributed in the mass of parenchymatous cells. Laticiferous ducts, in which latex are found are again two types-

Latex cell or non-articulate latex ducts

Latex vessels or articulate latex

Latex cells

Also called as "non-articulate latex ducts", these ducts are independent units which extend as branched structures for long distances in the plant body. They originates as minute structures, elongate quickly and by repeated branching ramify in all directions but do not fuse together. Thus a network is not formed as in latex vessels.

Latex vessel

Also called "articulate latex ducts", these ducts or vecssels are the result of anastamosing of many cells together. They grow more or less as parallel ducts which by means of branching and frequent anastamose form a complex network. Latex vessels are commonly found in many angiosperm families.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

Laticiferous tissues. These consist of thick walled, greatly elongated an d much branched ducts containing a milky or yellowish colored juice known as latex. They contain numerous nuclei which lie embedded in the thin lining layer of protoplasm. They irregularly distributed in the mass of parenchymatous cells.