Question

Functions of parenchyma?

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Answer 1

FUNCTIONS OF PARENCHYMA:

1. It serves as food storage tissue of plants, mainly for starch or fats.
2. The cells of the parenchyma are turgid and help in maintaining shape and firmness of the plant.
3. The intercellular spaces of parenchyma cells allow for gaseous exchange.
4. Certain waste products gum, tannin, resins, latex and mucilage are also stored in parenchyma.
5. Parenchyma containing chlorophyll, chlorenchyma performs photosynthesis.
6. In hydrophytes, parenchyma has large air cavities that provide buoyancy to such plants. Such a parenchyma is called as aerenchyma.
7. It helps in lateral conduction as a component of phloem and xylem.