Definition of "suberization" []

• Deposition of suberin on the walls of plant cells and their subsequent conversion into cork tissue. (noun)

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• "Curing promotes suberization and creates a callus over damaged areas."
• "So the frightened stock throws cork cells over its cut surface between that and the graft, and the suberization goes on as a result of fear on the part of the timid stock."
• "When you have taken away the fear by covering the whole area with melted paraffin and it feels safe, then suberization does not go on in this way, your stock is not frightened, you have not a scared tree at all, and it will go on kindly and gently as a Jersey heifer to do its work."