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Propagation via root cuttings requires adventitious bud formation, e.g., in horseradish and apple. In layering, adventitious roots are formed on aerial stems before the stem section is removed to make a new plant. Large houseplants are often propagated by air layering. Adventitious roots and buds must develop in tissue culture propagation of ...
Adventitious roots arise out-of-sequence from the more usual root formation of branches of a primary root, and instead originate from the stem, branches, leaves, or old woody roots. They commonly occur in monocots and pteridophytes, but also in many dicots , such as clover ( Trifolium ), ivy ( Hedera ), strawberry ( Fragaria ) and willow ( Salix ).
Adventitious – roots that form from other than the hypocotyl or from other roots. Roots forming on the stem are adventitious. Aerial – roots growing in the air. (Root) crown – the place where the roots and stem meet, which may or may not be clearly visible. [10] Fibrous – describes roots that are thread-like and normally tough.
In botany, stolons are plant stems which grow at the soil surface or just below ground that form adventitious roots at the nodes, and new plants from the buds. [1] [2] Stolons are often called runners. Rhizomes, in contrast, are root-like stems that may either grow horizontally at the soil surface or in other orientations underground. [1]
The adventitia (/ æ d v ɛ n ˈ t ɪ ʃ ə / ad-ven-TI-shuh) is the outer layer of fibrous connective tissue surrounding an organ. [1]The outer layer of connective tissue that surrounds an artery, or vein – the tunica externa, is also called the tunica adventitia.
Nodal roots are adventitious roots (roots originating from non-root tissues) that develop from stem nodes below (called crown roots) or above (called brace roots) the soil. [5] Although many adventitious roots develop in response to stress conditions such as flooding or wounding, some adventitious roots develop as a normal (i.e., constitutive ...
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A root tuber, tuberous root or storage root is a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ. The enlarged area of the tuber can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root. It is thus different in origin, but similar in function and appearance, to a stem tuber.