shoot system
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009006
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: Poaceae crown
- related: shoot
- related: thalli
- related: thallus
- narrow: tree crown
- exact: シュート系、苗条系 (Japanese)
- exact: sistema de epiblasto (epiblastema) (Spanish)
- Definition
- A collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) that produces shoot-borne portions of meristem tissue (PO:0009013) and the plant structures (PO:0009011) that arise from them. [source: POC:curators, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- The shoot system is generally used to refer to the above-ground plant parts, although some plants have parts of their shoot system underground. For example, a rhizome (PO:0004542), bulb (PO:0025356), a corm (PO:0025355) or a subterranean tuber (PO:0004547), as in Solanum tuberosum (potato) or yam, are all part of the shoot system.
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