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root hair

NOUN
  1. thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil

How To Use root hair In A Sentence

  • The absence of root hairs on ‘stigmarian rootlets’ is also consistent with their origin from leaves.
  • In addition, each of the single mutants exhibits a small increase of the number of root hairs in the upper part of this organ caused by the formation of some root hairs in ectopic positions.
  • Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria invade the root hairs of host plants, where they multiply and stimulate the formation of root nodules, enlargements of plant cells and bacteria in close association.
  • As discussed previously, the root hairs of most casuarina species are invaded by the filamentous soil actinomycete, Frankia. 3. The Plants
  • Hormones are involved in the regulation of root hair development.
  • The procedure involves the propagation of detached roots on agar plates and the collection of root hairs by immersion in liquid nitrogen.
  • The other end manifests an array of long, filamentous rhizoids that have the appearance, and apparently serve the same function, as root hairs.
  • Root hairs are highly polarized outgrowths that arise from swellings that form at the apical (root tip) end of root epidermal cells.
  • Creatures extrude or vent eggs; larvae fatten, split their shells, and eat them; spores dissolve or explode; root hairs multiply, corn puffs on the stalk, grass yields seed, shoots erupt from the earth turgid and sheathed; wet muskrats, rabbits, and squirrels slide into the sunlight, mewling and blind; and everywhere watery cells divide and swell, swell and divide. Nature & Environment
  • By contrast to healthy control root hairs, incipient plasmolysis and loss of root hair cytosolic content was also observed.
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