apogeotropism
apogeotropism The type of tropism in which plant organs (e.g. shoots) grow against the force of gravity.
More From encyclopedia.com
Stolon , stolon Modified, horizontal, underground or aerial stem growing from the basal node of a plant. Aerial stolons, also called runners, may be slender,… Vegetables , The term vegetables can have three distinct meanings when applied to plants. The first as in "animal, vegetable, or mineral" refers to the entire kin… Monocotyledoneae , Monocotyledoneae One of the two classes of flowering plants (see Anthophyta), distinguished by having one seed leaf (cotyledon) within the seed. The… Hemicryptophyte , hemicryptophyte One of Raunkiaer's life-form categories, being a plant whose perennating buds are at ground level, the aerial shoots dying down at th… Grass , grass, any plant of the family Gramineae, an important and widely distributed group of vascular plants, having an extraordinary range of adaptation.… Alkaloid , Alkaloids are natural, organic substances that are predominantly found in plants and normally contain at least one nitrogen atom in their chemical st…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
apogeotropism