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occurs in trees and other perennials where new tissues are added indefinitely, season after seasons
Indeterminate growth
Example of plants with food storage roots
Yams and sweet potatoes
extra cambial cells develop in parts of the xylem branch roots and produce parenchyma cell organs swell and provide storage areas for large amounts of starch and other carbohydrates
Yams and Sweet potatoes
Enlarge and store large quantities of starch and other carbohydrates which may be used for extensive growth later.
Food-storage roots
Water storage plants usually grown in?
Arid regions
example of water storage roots
Pumpkin Family
Pumpkin family is also known as
(Cucurbitaceae)
used by the plants when supply in soil is inadequate
Water-storage roots
Produce adventitious buds along the roots that grow near the surface of the ground
Propagative roots
what do you call buds that develop into aerial stems
suckers
The root suckers can be what?
separated from the original root and grown individually
example of propagative roots
cherries, apples, pears, and other fruit trees
roots that develop due to plants that grow their roots in water that have no enough oxygen available for normal respiration in the root cell
Pneumatophores
example of pneumatophores
swamp plants and the yellow water weed
extends above the water surface and enhance gas exchange between the atmosphere and the subsurface roots to which they are connected.
Pneumatophores
example of aerial roots
Velamen roots of orchids, prop roots of corn and banyan trees, adventitious ivies and photosynthetic roots of certain orchids
Prevent loss of moisture from the root
Aerial roots
what plants have roots that support them in the high wind
Corn prop roots
what plants produce sizable prop roots
screw pines and various mangroves
what plant produces chlorophyll in its aerial roots and through photosynthesis can manufacture food with them.
Vanilla orchids, vanilla flavoring
