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DURING the course of a morpho-histogenic study on the cultivated species of Dioscorea of Gujarat State, India, certain observations were made on the development of the vessel elements in the stem of D. alata (Kamodio variety). The vessel elements of the plant were found to be unusual in being very broad with long scalariform plates which often exhibit a branching of the bars in the plate1,2.
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SHAH, J. Cœnocytic Vessel Elements in Dioscorea alata L.. Nature 197, 1125 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1971125a0
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