radicle
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When the plant embryo emerges from the seed, the radicle of the embryo forms the root system.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
But instead of having just one root, most plants have millions of individual roots, each with a single radicle.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2015
Mancuso has found rising evidence that the key to plant intelligence is in the radicle or root apex.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2015
The root system is usually anchored by one main root developed from the embryonic radicle.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Seeds in 2 rows in each cell, rounded, broadly winged; cotyledons accumbent; radicle short.—A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and leafy-bracteate racemes of yellow flowers.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
