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  2. Storage organ - Wikipedia

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    Storage organs may act as perennating organs ('perennating' as in perennial, meaning "through the year", used in the sense of continuing beyond the year and in due course lasting for multiple years). These are used by plants to survive adverse periods in the plant's life-cycle (e.g. caused by cold, excessive heat, lack of light or drought).

  3. Underground stem - Wikipedia

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    A geophyte (earth+plant) is a plant with an underground storage organ including true bulbs, corms, tubers, tuberous roots, enlarged hypocotyls, and rhizomes. Most plants with underground stems are geophytes but not all plants that are geophytes have underground stems. Geophytes are often physiologically active even when they lack leaves.

  4. Tuber - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Taproot - Wikipedia

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    Fusiform root: this root is widest in the middle and tapers towards the top and the bottom: e.g. radish. Napiform root: the root has a top-like appearance. It is very broad at the top and tapers suddenly like a tail at the bottom: e.g. turnip. The edible, orange part of the carrot is its taproot. Many taproots are modified into storage organs ...

  6. Root - Wikipedia

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    A true root system consists of a primary root and secondary roots (or lateral roots). the diffuse root system: the primary root is not dominant; the whole root system is fibrous and branches in all directions. Most common in monocots. The main function of the fibrous root is to anchor the plant.

  7. Plant stem - Wikipedia

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    respiration, photosynthesis, transport, storage) as well as acting as structural support and forming new meristems. [7] Most or all ground tissue may be lost in woody stems . Vascular tissue, consisting of xylem , phloem and cambium ; provides long distance transport of water , minerals and metabolites ( sugars , amino acids ); whilst aiding ...

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  9. Ground tissue - Wikipedia

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    Parenchyma is a versatile ground tissue that generally constitutes the "filler" tissue in soft parts of plants. It forms, among other things, the cortex (outer region) and pith (central region) of stems, the cortex of roots, the mesophyll of leaves, the pulp of fruits, and the endosperm of seeds.