root system
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025025
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: sistema de raíz (Spanish)
- exact: 根系 (Japanese)
- broad: root
- Definition
- A collective plant organ structure (PO:0025007) that produces root meristems (PO:0006085), the plant structures (PO:0009011) that arise from them and the parts thereof. [source: POC:curators, POC:Laurel_Cooper]
- Comment
- Generally the below ground portion of a vascular plant.
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