rhizoid

How To Use rhizoid In A Sentence

• B, Part of a developed protonema. h, Creeping filament with brown walls from which the filaments of chlorophyll-containing cells (b) arise; k, young moss-plant; w, its first rhizoid.] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• It is likely that the rhizoids absorb water, but only because almost everything in a moss absorbs water.
• Yuan et al. restricted Baculiphyca to those clavate forms with rhizoidal holdfasts and thus differentiated it from Diaoyapolites, which has a globose holdfast according to Chen and Xiao.
• After harvesting, whole algae were extensively washed with natural seawater to remove any attached sand and the rhizoidal portions were removed to avoid microbial contamination in the following culture.
• A filamentous protonema is first developed, some of the branches of which are exposed to the light and contain abundant chlorophyll, while others penetrate the substratum as brown or colourless rhizoids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• The protonema forms a flat, lobed, thalloid structure attached to the soil by rhizoids, and the plants arise from marginal cells. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• The initial, primary rhizoid emerges from the spore during germination.
• The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and apparently serve the same function, as root hairs.
• The social growth of the plants characteristic of many mosses is a result of the formation of numerous plants on the original protonema and on developments from the rhizoids. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• Baculiphyca taeniata was considered to differ from D. longiconoidalis on the basis of its rhizoidal rather than globose holdfast; however, the difference in holdfasts is probably preservational.