Root

Primary and secondary roots in a cotton plant

In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.[1] They are most often below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water.[2]

  1. ^ Harley Macdonald & Donovan Stevens (3 September 2019). Biotechnology and Plant Biology. EDTECH. pp. 141–. ISBN 978-1-83947-180-3.
  2. ^ Nguyen, Linh Thuy My; Hoang, Hanh Thi; Choi, Eunho; Park, Pil Sun (2023-07-05). "Distribution of mangroves with different aerial root morphologies at accretion and erosion sites in Ca Mau Province, Vietnam". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 287: 108324. Bibcode:2023ECSS..28708324N. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108324. ISSN 0272-7714.