xylemspecific
Xylemspecific is an adjective used in botany and plant molecular biology to describe traits, expressions, or components that are restricted to xylem tissue in vascular plants. It is often applied to gene promoters, transcripts, proteins, or physiological processes whose activity or presence is largely confined to xylem, particularly during development and secondary growth.
Xylem is the water-conducting and support tissue formed from the vascular cambium and matured into lignified
In research and biotechnology, xylemspecific elements are used to study xylem biology or to restrict transgene
Caveats include that many genes show some activity outside xylem; true xylemspecificity is established by comparative