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Ecology    [ Biology ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  Ecology is a branch of biology dealing with the interactions of living organisms to one another and to their environment or habitat, including the biotic and abiotic components. Especially the study of factors affecting the distribution and abundance of organisms.  
     
The term ecology when referred to a particular species is used to describe the relationships between this species and its environment, in particularly describes how individual interacts with each other and with their physical and biological environment (including plants animals and humans).
     

 

 


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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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