Shoots are fresh new plant growth, they can include stems, flowering stems with flower buds, leaves. The new growth from seed germination that grows upward is a shoot where leaves will develop.
shoot
the stems and leaves of a plant
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere.
SHOOTS ABOVE GROUND
Sure we said that there are some roots above the surface, but the majority of the plant you see is made up of stems and leaves. Think about a tree. The stems are the trunks and branches. Leaves are self-explanatory.
shoot -- Usually, the above ground portion of a plant, bearing the leaves. Contrast with root.
shoot The plant stem; provides support for the leaves and þowers; one of the three major plant organs; also referred to as the shoot system. PICTURE ...
shoot system
The aerial portion of a plant body, consisting of stems, leaves, and flowers.
short-day plant ...
shoot
The part of a vascular plant above the ground, consisting of stem and leaves.
sieve tubes
A series of long cells lying end to end and forming a tube, found in the phloem of Angiosperms.
shoot apex,
primary leaves,
cotyledon(s),
stem, and
root.
Link to illustrated description of seed development.
Leaf Formation
The formation of new leaves in the apical meristem [View] is initiated by the accumulation of auxin.
Shoots that develop from adventitious buds on roots are termed suckers. Basal shoot ... Adventitious roots and buds usually develop near the existing vascular tissues ...
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shoot system Collective term for the stem and its leaves; generally the aboveground portion of the plant.
short grass prairie A grassland biome characterized by short grass and low rainfall; also known as the plains.
no levaes, shoots, or roots
no vascular system
leaflike structures are present, but lack any vascular tissue ...
sucker. Shoot arising from the trunk or rootstock.
summer planting. A system of strawberry culture in which planting occurs in summer and fruit production begins the following spring.
flower - a shoot of the sporophyte of a higher plant that is modified for reproduction and consists of a shortened axis bearing modified leaves; especially, one of a seed plant differentiated into a calyx, corolla, stamens, and carpels (Webster) ...
Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma.
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Example, a new plant grows out of the root or a shoot from an existing plant.
Produces only genetically identical offspring since all divisions are by mitosis.
Offspring called clones meaning that each is an exact copy of the original organism ...
blastos - germ, bud, shoot]. The outer layer of the conceptus which makes direct contact with endometrium.
germinal epithelium [L. germinis - bud, offshoot] The epithelium that covers the surface of a mammalian ovary.
germinal vesicle [L. germinis - bud, offshoot; L. vesicula- bladder]. The greatly enlarged nucleus of an oocyte.
We're shooting for about 1000 base pairs a second, compared with current commercial sequencing rates of less than 10,000 base pairs a day," Keller said.
A type of plant hormone that elongates cells in seedlings, shoot tips, embryos, and leaves.
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Kling, J. 2002. Speed-reading the genome. The Scientist 16:49.
With a novel approach, US Genomics shoots for viable, real-time genomic sequencing.
In horticulture artificial propagation by insertion of a bud within the bark of another plant.
Related Terms:
Bud
Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma.
blueberries blue, raspberries red, and are thought to play a major role in the high antioxidant activity levels observed in red and blue fruits and vegetables. Anthocyanins are also largely responsible for the red coloring of buds and young shoots ...
are developed by the confluence of numerous venous capillaries, which at first lose their connections with the venous system, but subsequently, on the formation of the sacs, regain them. The lymphatic system is therefore developmentally an offshoot ...
I have videotape of flagellates trying to engulf a long filament, pushing the filament through itself until the whole mess looks like a gall on a goldenrod stem and finally pushing the filament out of itself like an arrow shooting out of a bow.) E.
radiation as the light source; this gives a far superior signal-to-noise ratio than a conventional instrument. We find that poly(Glu), poly(Lys) and alanine-based peptides fold in milliseconds, with longer peptides showing a transient overshoot in ...
 See also: Plant, Cells, Trans, Organ, Tissue
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