Give explanation about cork cambium.
$\Rightarrow$ As the stem continues to increase the girth due to the activity of vascular cambium, the outer cortical and epidermis layers get broken and need to be replaced to provide new protective cells layers. Hence sooner or later another meristematic tissue called cork cambium or phellogen develops in the cortex region.
Initiation of lateral roots and vascular cambium during secondary growth takes place in cells of :
Give one basic functional difference between phellogen and phelloderm.
Besides phellem, phellogen, root periderm comprises of
Commercially important fibres of cotton are