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This video illustrates what happens at a damage-point at an area of the garden where a pointy-leaf plant grows. Beyond the damage, the cells that remain "alive" show distorted and uncontrolled growth. The first affects of injury are breakdowns in the cell reproduction process. It's as if heredity information isn't accurately passed to a generation isolated by the injury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznI4qKsiAw