What are the adaptations of the xylem cell?
Adaption of Xylem vessel are:
1. thick wall made of lignin which supports the plant.
2. xylem vessel are hollow from inside.
3. does not have cross walls, are hollow from inside which
increase the surface
area to volume ratio and can take in more water.
4.does not have cytoplasm, nucleus, cell membrane, protoplasm
and mitochondria
that is why it is a dead vessel or also called wood.
5.liginin is deposited in several patterns like annular, spiral
or pitted.