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    Coleoptile is the pointed protective sheath covering the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as grasses in which few leaf primordia and shoot apex of...
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    experiments on coleoptiles, the sheaths enclosing young leaves in germinating grass seedlings. The experiment exposed the coleoptile to light from a...
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    Difference between coleoptile and coleorhiza Definition of coleoptile : The plumule are enclosed in sheaths which are called coleoptile. They protect the...
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    and a coleoptile. The scutellum is a tissue within the seed that is specialized to absorb stored food from the adjacent endosperm. The coleoptile is a...
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    germination can occur in waterlogged conditions. The seed produces a hollow coleoptile that acts like a 'snorkel', providing the seed with access to oxygen....
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    1 An oat coleoptile with the sun overhead. Auxin (pink) is evenly distributed in its tip. 2 With the sun at an angle and only shining on one side of the...
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    the coleoptile, the pointed protective sheath covering the emerging shoot. Cholodny and Went proposed that auxin is synthesized in the coleoptile tip...
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    tip of the plant is known as the coleoptile, which is necessary in light sensing. The middle portion of the coleoptile is the area where the shoot curvature...
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  • was not followed by cytokinesis. coleoptile One type of sheath in the structure of monocotyledonous seeds. The coleoptile is a protective sheath or cap (pileus)...
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    additional structures in the form of sheaths. The plumule is covered with a coleoptile that forms the first leaf while the radicle is covered with a coleorhiza...
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    have hypogeal emergence, where the mesocotyl elongates and pushes the coleoptile (which encloses and protects the shoot tip) toward the soil surface. Since...
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  • elongated, root hairs and/or side roots visible 07 Coleoptile emerged from caryopsis 09 Emergence: coleoptile penetrates soil surface (cracking stage) 1: Leaf...
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    Plants (1888) after his father's death. Their experiments showed that the coleoptile of a young grass seedling directs its growth toward the light by comparing...
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    cereals and other grasses is somewhat different. A structure called the coleoptile, essentially a part of the cotyledon, protects the young stem and plumule...
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    2005). "The Rice COLEOPTILE PHOTOTROPISM1 Gene Encoding an Ortholog of Arabidopsis NPH3 Is Required for Phototropism of Coleoptiles and Lateral Translocation...
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  • cholodnii is named after him. In 1927 Cholodny proposed that the cells of the coleoptile are first polarized under the influence of uneven exposure to light, so...
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    able to show that light is perceived at the tip of a young stem (the coleoptile), whereas the bending occurs lower down the stem. They proposed that a...
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  • It proposes that auxin, a plant growth hormone, is synthesized in the coleoptile tip, which senses light or gravity and will send the auxin down the appropriate...
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  • increased growth in the longitudinal shadow side of the coleoptile, resulting in the coleoptile curving towards the light. In 1911, Boysen Jensen concluded...
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    2005). "The Rice Coleoptile Phototropisim1 Gene Encoding an Ortholog of Arabidopsis NPH3 Is Required for Phototropism of Coleoptiles and Lateral Translocation...
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  • Elongation of radicle, formation of root hairs and/or lateral roots 07 G Coleoptile emerged from caryopsis D, M Hypocotyl with cotyledons or shoot breaking...
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    of very contrasted sizes, ranging from the small germination of wheat (coleoptile) to the trunk of poplar trees. Further studies have shown that the cellular...
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  • seedlings Etiolated characteristics: Distinct apical hook (dicot) or coleoptile (monocot) No leaf growth No chlorophyll Rapid stem elongation Limited...
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  • caryopsis 06 Radicle elongated, root hairs and/or side roots visible 07 Coleoptile emerged from caryopsis (in water-rice this stage occurs before stage 05)...
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    she collaborated with visual artist Kerstin Cmelka in a book called I, Coleoptile containing original English poetry and film stills, published by Broken...
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  • the stimulus for phototropism is detected at the tip of the shoot (the coleoptile tip), but the bending takes place in the region below the tip (1880)....
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    (2016). "Effects of juglone and lawsone on oxidative stress in maize coleoptile cells treated with IAA". AoB Plants. 8: plw073. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plw073...
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    machine B.G. Pickard (1973) Geotropic response patterns of the Avena coleoptile. I. Dependence on angle and duration of stimulation. Can. J. Bot. 51:...
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    as the growth principle and notes that Darwin pioneered the use of the coleoptile (which in Darwin's time was called a cotyledon) in plant growth studies...
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  • auxin and apoplast acidification. The hypothesis states that susceptible coleoptile cells expel H+ protons through membrane-bound proton pumps into the apoplast...
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