A plant that you are studying has sluggish wound healing abilities as well as an inability to store significant food reserves.  You would like to enhance these properties.  If you could enhance the growth of a tissue to improve these properties, which tissue would you enhance?

A. periderm
B. lateral meristem
C. parenchyma of the stem cortex
D. root apical meristem


Answer: C

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