Root
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics." --A Thousand Plateaus (1980) by Deleuze & Guattari, p. 15 |
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In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil. Roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is growing up above the ground or especially above water. Furthermore, a stem normally occurring below ground is not exceptional either (see rhizome). Therefore, the root is best defined as the non-leaf, non-nodes bearing parts of the plant's body. However, important internal structural differences between stems and roots exist.
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- Rooting Powder
- Fibrous root system
- Mycorrhiza - root symbiosis in which individual hyphae extending from the mycelium of a fungus colonize the roots of a host plant.
- Rhizosphere - region of soil around the root influenced by root secretions and microorganisms present
- Root cutting
- Stolon
- Drought rhizogenesis
- Cypress knee
- Rootless cosmopolitan