Forest Biology of Tropical Plants Lecture: Cells that tend to have thick secondary cell walls due to lignin. They are dead at maturity. Thus, these can no longer stretch, and they provide important structural support in mature stems after growth has stopped.

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Cells that tend to have thick secondary cell walls due to lignin. They are dead at maturity. Thus, these can no longer stretch, and they provide important structural support in mature stems after growth has stopped.

Christine Deluna · Accepted Answer

Sclerenchyma

Forest Biology of Tropical Plants Lecture

Cells that tend to have thick secondary cell walls due to lignin. They are dead at maturity. Thus, these can no longer stretch, and they provide important structural support in mature stems after growth has stopped.

Sclerenchyma

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