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It is well documented that the bark of mesquite (Prosopis spp.) exudes a proteoglycan mucilage (Whistler and Smart 1953) as a response to damage to the cambium by direct means, such as insect attack or wounding, or by physiological stresses that indirectly affect the vascular cambium, such as severe water and heat stresses (Greenwood and Morey 1979). The axial xylem parenchyma and ray parenchyma at sites of cambial wounding appear to synthesize massive amounts of gum which is excreted into the wound area where it may prevent undue desiccation of the tissues, thereby enabling formation of wound parenchyma, and may also prevent the ingress of pathogens, as is shown for gum deposition in other plants (Banko and Helton 1972). Indeed, response to wounding is one of the hypotheses for the origin of gum arabic (Joseleau and Ullman 1990).
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Goycoolea, F.M., de la Barca, A.M.C., Hernández, G., Valenzuela, J.R., Balderrama, J.R. (2000). Immunochemical, Structural and Functional Properties of Mesquite Gum Compared with Gum Arabic. In: Nothnagel, E.A., Bacic, A., Clarke, A.E. (eds) Cell and Developmental Biology of Arabinogalactan-Proteins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4207-0_23
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