Middle lamella

Cell wall and middle lamella (above)

The middle lamella is a thin, plasma-like layer of pectins between neighboring plant cells . By this structure, adjacent cells are literally adhered together only in the corners between the cells, there are some small (or such as in the Aerenchym very large) air-filled intermediate spaces, the intercellular spaces .

swell

• Strasburger, Textbook of Botany, 35th edition, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2002. ISBN 978-3-8274-1388-8