Questions tagged [plant-anatomy]
The study of the form and internal structures of plants.
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In a leaf, how does the water get out of the xylem?
In every textbooks, one can read that the xylem transports water and nutriments up to the leaves while the phloem transports the sap down to each parts of the tree, and that both the xylem and phloem ...
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What has caused my oxeye daisies to mutate?
Some oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) in my garden are showing strange mutations. I have a few oxeye daisy plants around my garden in different areas, but only one plant's flowers are showing ...
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Why does hydroponic basil grow a thick stem?
I heard of a basil plant growing a thick uncuttable base stem when grown hydroponically. In just 6 months. It also grew very tall.
One explanation is the nutrient feed is too high.
Why else might this ...
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Why is phloem parenchyma absent in most monocots?
What evolutionary advantage did monocots get by losing this tissue that just seems to be storing food and metabolites?
I think this question has been asked before, but I didn't see an answer for that ...
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Formation of xylem
Does metaxylem forms from protoxylem? Or they develop independently? My main motif is to clarify, " Is metaxylem just a more developed protoxylem? "
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Current Fern Taxonomy
In our school, the manual exhibits an outdated taxonomy as expressed by my teacher. We're following the Kingdom Plantae, Division Pterophyta, then divided into three Orders:
Order Filicales
Order ...
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How can I determine statistical significance in seed length and width measurements?
I am researching seed size variation in cereals. I used ImageJ to measure the seeds and generated arbitrary values. Later I converted the measurements to micrometers. I took length and width ...
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Are there any plants that retrieve energy from the wind?
Many trees grow in windy places, but appear to have adapted to this by developing characteristics that provide resistance to wind.
Are there any plants that appear to have been selected for the ...
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Roses are red ... and have thorns
Just had an unpleasant encounter with a wild rose. Not her fault, should've kept my distance.
Roses are some of the plants that have anatomical defenses (I'm talking about thorns). Well, what ...
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How do plants that grow underground legumes/nuts distribute their seeds?
It makes perfect sense to me when plants employ some sort of method of distributing their offspring some distance from the mother plant. If the mother plant dies due to that location not being ideal, ...
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Is kranz anatomy not a defining feature of $C_4$ plant?
In NCERT Class 11 chapter 13 it is written that
The particularly large cells around the vascular bundles of the C4 plants are called bundle sheath cells, and the leaves which have such anatomy are ...
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Why is antheridiophore not considered part of the sex organ while stamens including filament are considered a sex organ?
In the majority of websites and textbook I have referenced, the antheridiophore is considered to be the stalk which extends the sex organ (antheridium) in bryophytes. Meanwhile, in flowers, the whole ...
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Water transport to the Shoot apical meristem in a seedling
I am familiar with how plants transport water from the roots to leaves. Specifically, Water evaporates from the leaf surface, generating a negative pressure gradient which pulls water up from the root....
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Database or model for plant nutrient requirements with respect to soil and climate?
Microalgae are organisms that can grow in aquatic environments and use light and carbon dioxide (CO2) to create biomass. Research showed that Microalgae biomass can be used as a bio-fertilizer.
My ...
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Why is the nitrate concentration in a root hair cell higher than the nitrate concentration in soil?
For the exchange of nitrates and other mineral ions to occur between the root hair cell and the soil, the root hair cell needs a higher concentration of mineral ions and nitrates than the soil so that ...
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