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  2. Arundinaria - Wikipedia

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    Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas .

  3. Sugarcane - Wikipedia

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    Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose , [ 1 ] which accumulates in the stalk internodes .

  4. Spindle apparatus - Wikipedia

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    The dynamic lengthening and shortening of spindle microtubules, through a process known as dynamic instability determines to a large extent the shape of the mitotic spindle and promotes the proper alignment of chromosomes at the spindle midzone. Microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) associate with microtubules at the midzone and the spindle ...

  5. Saccharum officinarum - Wikipedia

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    Saccharum officinarum is a large, strong-growing species of grass in the sugarcane genus. Its stout stalks are rich in sucrose , a disaccharide sugar which accumulates in the stalk internodes . It originated in New Guinea , [ 1 ] and is now cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries worldwide for the production of sugar , ethanol and ...

  6. Arundinaria gigantea - Wikipedia

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    Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known as giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax), river cane, and giant river cane. It is endemic to the south-central and southeastern United States as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as New York. Giant river cane was economically and culturally important to indigenous ...

  7. Microtubule - Wikipedia

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    Microtubule and tubulin metrics [1]. Microtubules are polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton and provide structure and shape to eukaryotic cells. Microtubules can be as long as 50 micrometres, as wide as 23 to 27 nm [2] and have an inner diameter between 11 and 15 nm. [3]

  8. Sugarcane smut - Wikipedia

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    However, mostly it remains on plants of the genus Saccharum. Two to four months after the fungus has infected the plant, black whip-like structures, instead of a spindle leaf, emerge from the meristem, or growing point, of the plant. The developing whip is a mixture of plant tissue and fungal tissue.

  9. Arundinaria tecta - Wikipedia

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    Arundinaria tecta is a low and slender bamboo that branches in its upper half, growing up to 0.6–4 m (2 ft 0 in – 13 ft 1 in) in height. Arundinaria tecta features long primary branches usually greater than 50 centimetres (20 in) in length. [ 10 ]