The Apoplast of Higher Plants: Compartment of Storage, Tr...
Sattelmacher, Burkhard / Horst, Walter J.![The Apoplast of Higher Plants: Compartment of Storage, Transport and Reactions](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/105/10582668/CHSBZCOP0310582668.jpg)
It was the botanist Ernst Münch, who separated the plant into two principal compartments, the "dead" apoplast and the living symplast. Only during the last 20 years cell walls attracted the interest of a broader group of plant scientists. We know today that apoplastic functions are much more diverse. The apoplast may be considered as "the internal physiological environment of plant bodies", that essentially maintains homeostasis. The term ‘cel...