... stem cells of the animal kingdom however continue to exist in plants. They perform the function of growth for the plants. In dicot plants there is a third kind of meristem. Lateral meristem exists in dicot plants and it allows the plant to develop wood and expand during its lifetime (Diagram 3a). As it can be ... the water potential is around -5 to 10 total bars of pressure. At this point the plant has reached its permanent wilting point, below this point plasmolysis will occur. Plasmolysis is the movement of the cytoplasm away from the cell walls. This will result in no movement of water...

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