shoot axis
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025029
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: shoot
- exact: シュート軸 (Japanese)
- exact: caullome
- exact: eje del epiblasto (epiblastema) (Spanish)
- Definition
- A plant axis (PO:0025004) that is part of a shoot system (PO:0009006). [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- Often bears leaves and branches. In vascular plants, has at least one node and one internode.
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