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Abortion  [ Botany - Biology ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

Adjective: Aborted
     
  Arrest of development (as of an embryo, organ or process) resulting in imperfection or premature termination.  Also : a result of such arrest.  
     
An abort is the premature (spontaneous or induced) termination of a biological process in the early stages before it’s full development (e.g. the arrest of a fruit maturation, bud development, etc.)
The result is an interrupted or anomalous growth or the death of the organ.
     
To abort Transitive & intransitive verb.     [ Botany - Biology ]
     
Intransitive verb: To terminate a process or development of an organ or embryo ,  prematurely before completion.
     
Transitive verb: a : To induce the abortion.
b : To terminate a process in the early stages.
 
 
     

 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

 
     
  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
   

 

 

 

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