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    Dr. Sajish P.R.

    Assistant Professor
    Dept. of Botany
    Baselius College, Kottayam
    o These tissues perform special function in
    the plants e.g.; secretion of resin, gum,
    oil and latex.
    o These tissues are of two types:
    A. Glandular tissue
    B. Laticiferous tissue
    A) GLANDULAR TISSUE
    o It consists of glands.
    o A gland is specialized group of cells, capable
    of secreting some substances.
    o These glands are further of two types:
    1) External glands
    2) Internal glands
    1. EXTERNAL GLANDS
    These generally occur on the epidermis of stem and
    leaves as glandular outgrowth. e.g.; glandular hair,
    nectar secreting and enzyme secreting glands.

    a) Glandular hair: These


    hairs are present in
    epidermal layers of
    leaves and are of various
    kinds. Contents of hair
    are poisonous and are
    secreted by a gland at
    the tip of the hair.
    1. EXTERNAL GLANDS
    b) Nectaries: Present in flowers or leaves. Cell
    walls of these cells are thin and the cells
    have dense cytoplasm.
    1. EXTERNAL GLANDS
    c) Digestive glands or Enzyme
    secreting glands:
    Insectivorous plants possess the
    power of digesting proteins
    from bodies of insects by
    secreting some digestive
    enzymes by means of glands
    or glandular hair. e.g.;
    Nepenthes, Drosera, etc.
    2. INTERNAL GLANDS
    These glands are found inside the plant. These
    glands are spherical or tubular. Various types of
    internal glands are as follows:
    a) Oil glands: Lysigenous cavity is formed due
    to dissolution of glandular cells which
    contain oil, these are called as oil glands
    e.g.; oil glands in leaves and rind of the fruits
    of Citrus and Orange.
    b) Mucilaginous glands: Mucilage occurs in
    lysigenous cavity, it is called as mucilaginous
    gland. Example: In leaves of betel vine.
    2. INTERNAL GLANDS
    c) Resin/Tannin/Gum glands: The glandular
    cells have schizogenous cavities which are
    filled with resin, tannin or gum. e.g.: Resin
    gland in leaves and stem of Pinus.
    2. INTERNAL GLANDS
    d) Water secreting glands:
    (Hydathodes = water stomata)
    These excrete water in the
    form of drops found in leaves
    of some herbacious
    angiosperms that generally
    grow in humid places.
    Hydathodes are present at the
    tip of leaves of some plants
    e.g.; Colocasia or along
    margin e.g.; Tropaeolum.
    B) LATICIFEROUS TISSUE
    • This tissue is mainly composed of thin walled,
    elongated, branched and multinucleate tube like
    structures.
    • They contain colourless, milky or yellow coloured
    juice called latex.
    • They are scattered throughout the ground tissue of
    the plant and contain stored organic matter in the
    form of starch, rubber, tannins, alkaloids, mucilage,
    enzymes, protein etc.
    • This tissue is of two types:
    1) Latex cells (Non articulated laticifers)
    2) Latex vessels (Articulated laticifers)
    1. LATEX VESSELS (ARTICULATED LATICIFERS)
    • They are composed of a large number of
    cells placed end to end with their transverse
    walls dissolved so as to form long vessels.
    • They are unbranched in
    the beginning but get
    branched later.
    • Two or more latex vessels
    fuse with each other
    forming a network. e.g.;
    Papaver, Argemone,
    Carica.
    2. LATEX CELLS (NON ARTICULATED LATICIFERS)
    • They differ from latex vessels in that they are
    not formed due to cell fusions and with other
    latex cells to form a network.
    • They are branched or
    unbranched.
    • Calotropis, Nerium,
    Thevetia, Euphorbia, Ficus,
    Catharanthus roseus etc.
    contain latex cells.

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