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  • A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water. Storage organs often...
    8 KB (947 words) - 08:02, 25 May 2024
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    Tuber (redirect from Storage root)
    Tubers are a type of enlarged structure that plants use as storage organs for nutrients, derived from stems or roots. Tubers help plants perennate (survive...
    14 KB (1,809 words) - 11:24, 29 August 2024
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    hypocotyl becomes enlarged as a storage organ. Examples include cyclamen, gloxinia and celeriac. In cyclamen this storage organ is called a tuber. One of the...
    3 KB (433 words) - 05:06, 21 February 2023
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    leaf bases that function as food storage organs during dormancy. In gardening, plants with other kinds of storage organ are also called ornamental bulbous...
    7 KB (773 words) - 10:51, 3 September 2024
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    directly downward. In some plants, such as the carrot, the taproot is a storage organ so well developed that it has been cultivated as a vegetable. The taproot...
    7 KB (783 words) - 19:14, 22 October 2024
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    thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ. In general, a tuber is high in starch, e.g. the potato, which is a...
    9 KB (972 words) - 04:04, 14 October 2024
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    and most reptiles and insects, the yolk takes the form of a special storage organ constructed in the reproductive tract of the mother. In many other animals...
    18 KB (2,240 words) - 09:39, 17 September 2024
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    a short, vertical, swollen underground plant stem that serves as a storage organ that some plants use to survive winter or other adverse conditions such...
    9 KB (1,051 words) - 16:32, 5 September 2024
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    geophytes that survive unfavorable periods by dying back to underground storage organs may be regarded as succulents. The habitats of these water-preserving...
    43 KB (3,384 words) - 19:49, 24 September 2024
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    The pseudobulb is a storage organ found in many epiphytic and terrestrial sympodial orchids. It is derived from a thickening of the part of a stem between...
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    reproductive system for sperm storage. It causes changes in uterine shape allowing spermatozoa access to the sperm storage organs. The female insect nervous...
    26 KB (3,248 words) - 23:14, 17 October 2024
  • sperm length and the length of the female seminal receptacle (sperm-storage organ) length, combined with an increasing competitive advantage of longer...
    2 KB (274 words) - 05:36, 3 August 2023
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    then the plant goes dormant through the dry Mediterranean summer. The storage organ of the cyclamen is a round tuber, which develops from the hypocotyl...
    26 KB (2,567 words) - 06:13, 29 August 2024
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    grown for ornamental purposes, which have underground or near ground storage organs. Botanists distinguish between true bulbs, corms, rhizomes, stem tubers...
    33 KB (3,800 words) - 16:12, 27 September 2024
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    more new plants the following year. Common forms of perennating organs are storage organs (e.g. tubers, rhizomes and corm), and buds. Perennation is closely...
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    units', to grow well. The plant develops a substantial underground storage organ (rhubarb crowns) and this can be used for early production by transferring...
    32 KB (3,409 words) - 10:35, 22 October 2024
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    mostly nitrogen, to growing and storage organs of the plant. Unlike animals, plants continually form new organs and older organs undergo a highly regulated...
    15 KB (2,074 words) - 17:39, 11 January 2024
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    large amounts of food during one meal. They have an efficient food storage organ and a very low metabolic rate, and a relatively inactive lifestyle....
    91 KB (9,238 words) - 06:21, 22 September 2024
  • liverworts (Marchantiophyta), and mosses (Bryophyta). bulb A thick storage organ, usually underground, consisting of a stem and leaf bases (the inner...
    344 KB (29,067 words) - 06:57, 11 October 2024
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    species of arthropod, mollusk and other phyla have a specialized sperm-storage organ called the spermatheca in which the sperm of different males sometimes...
    55 KB (6,901 words) - 22:16, 17 October 2024
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