Pericycle

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Found in the stele of plants, the pericycle is a cylinder of cells that lies just inside the endodermis. It conducts water and nutrients inward to the vascular tissue. In dicots, it is also has the capacity to produce lateral roots. Branch roots arise from this primary meristem tissue.

{{botany-stub} A plant tissue characteristic of the roots, located between the endodermis and phloem.