a thin, sticky membrane between plant cells that cements the cell walls together
middle lamella in American English
noun
Botany
the layer of cementing material, composed of pectates and similar substances, between the walls of adjacent cells
Word origin
[1920–25]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: fundamentalism, montage, self-service, ski jump, slalom
Examples of 'middle lamella' in a sentence
middle lamella
For both, the failure occurred in the middle lamella.
Christian Lanvermann, Philipp Hass, Falk K. Wittel, Peter Niemz 2013, 'Mechanical Properties of Norway Spruce: Intra-Ring Variation and Generic Behaviorof Earlywood and Latewood until Failure', BioResourceshttp://ojs.cnr.ncsu.edu/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_09_1_105_Lanvermann_Mechanical_Properties_Norway_Spruce. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Fruits from the nontreated plants showed poorly structured cell walls and middle lamella.
William Natale, Renato de Mello Prado, Fabíola Vitti Môro 2005, 'Alterações anatômicas induzidas pelo cálcio na parede celular de frutos de goiabeiraAnatomical modifications in the cell wall of guava as influenced by calcium', Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2005001200012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Amorphous material was also deposited in the cell walls, the middle lamella and the vacuoles.
Eleftherios P. Eleftheriou, Ioannis-Dimosthenis S. Adamakis, Emmanuel Panteris, MariaFatsiou 2015, 'Chromium-Induced Ultrastructural Changes and Oxidative Stress in Roots of Arabidopsisthaliana', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/16/7/15852. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Fruit ripening occurs with loss of fruit firmness and progressive degradation of the middle lamella and primary cell wall.
Kapil Ghai, P.K. Gupta, A.K. Gupta 2016, 'Physiochemical behaviour changes during ripening in fruits of Trewia nudiflora Linn.',Perspectives in Sciencehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213020916301707. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)