The Differentiation of Plant Cells

Abstract

This book shows that the organism of vascular plants may have a great number of cell types and that some of the tissues composed of these cells are very complex. However, the scientists dealing with animal or human histology would assess this complexity and diversity as being much less pronounced than those existing in their scope. They would probably consider that plant cells are much less differentiated than some animal cells, for example, nervous cells or striated muscle cells. So, they can conceive that plant cells sufficiently rich in living material can dedifferentiate and produce young cells again, whereas a real dedifferentiation does not commonly exist in animals.