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Palisade mesophyll cell

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A palisade mesophyll cell is a particular plant cell type. In Plant Ontology it belongs to palisade tissue, which is part of a leaf.

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Example: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-4, leaf 6, 19 days after initiation; Figure 2a, mature palisade mesophyll
Example: Arabidopsis thaliana Col-4, leaf 6, 19 days after initiation; Figure 2a, mature palisade mesophyllTeaching material · Wuyts et al. (2010) · CC-BY-2.0 · Original and attribution

The Arabidopsis optical section shows stained cell walls. It cannot establish chloroplast ultrastructure or gene expression in the pictured cells.

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The Wuyts and colleagues material is from Col-4, leaf six, 19 days after initiation. This context is retained when moving from the explanation to the original figure.

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Connected concepts

Chloroplast

A chloroplast is a chlorophyll-containing plastid. It contains thylakoids and stroma, with some thylakoids organised into stacks called grana.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant. Its structure can be explored from the whole leaf to tissue, cell and chloroplast.

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  1. Plant Ontology · 2026-01-09

    2026-09-04 · CC-BY-4.0

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    2026-01-09 / f5e2a95d88fe08af22f49e522cc78481d990a0b0
  2. Arabidopsis thaliana Col-4, leaf 6, 19 days after initiation; Figure 2a, mature palisade mesophyll

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    5510c5c1dba4162b182eed9ae054d2e97c25cc529740a5125ffcb1fd1c001b3c
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    Mature palisade panel extracted from Figure 2a; encoded as WebP. The shared scale bar is outside this panel and remains available in the full source figure.
  3. GO:0009507 · chloroplast

    2026-09-09T01:17:34.931415+00:00 · CC-BY-4.0

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    13082607c7dcc9e92cd281f1fc6a8fdf2878bceba74e9d7b6ad50d43b0ce33ba
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    Unmodified provider response; article text is an attributed educational summary.
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    QuickGO response did not supply a native ontology release; retrieval time and exact response hash retained.

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  4. Arabidopsis thaliana, first leaf of control seedling grown without added NaCl; Figure 3A

    Retrieval date unknown · CC BY 4.0

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    fe305c7d3a3327a06dda04c186989b5b8b6dec101bfe13aa851a3bc47dc07b14
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    Panel A extracted; original g/t annotations and 1 µm scale retained; encoded as WebP.
  5. UniProt P83755 · entry 161 / sequence 2

    2026-09-09T01:17:34.554931+00:00 · CC-BY-4.0

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    entry 161; sequence 2
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    Unmodified provider response; article text is an attributed educational summary.
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    Provider entry/sequence versions retained.

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  6. Arabidopsis thaliana basal leaf; photographed 14 April 2021

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    4c0da1e60a566728712e6443d8dfa11d4f4cd0084a0ef454d1262a3cdf05fa39
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    Resized and encoded as WebP; original 5 mm scale retained.
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