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root system

NOUN
  1. a developed system of roots

How To Use root system In A Sentence

  • On the other hand, a vine with a small and/or unhealthy root system, be it due to shallow soil, drought, root pests such as phylloxera, or diseases such as armillaria root rot, will support only low-vigour growth.
  • The plant at the left, with the most vigorous root system, is the one most deficient in a plant hormone known as gibberellin. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Sporting thin, jagged leaves upon a succulent, fleshy stem, the herb is easily uprooted and replanted due to its shallow root system.
  • Buck Abbey, a landscape professor at Louisiana State University, who has studied the effects of hurricane-force winds on plants, notes that the interknit canopy of a grove of trees tend to ride out high winds better than lone specimens -- especially if they're native varieties with wide, spreading branches, low centers of gravity, small leaves and deep root systems. Trees That Stand Up to Storms
  • As the soil was very friable due to being sieved into all treatment plots, rows were lifted with a garden fork and the retrieved roots were taken as representative of the root system.
  • Mounds and surface burrows interfere with mowing and mole activities may disturb root systems and kill grass.
  • Likewise mangroves grow well despite transient flooding of their root system with sea water.
  • The root system will have a deteriorated tap-root and lateral roots will only be evident in the upper soil profile.
  • Before my wondering eyes the straggly but still stalwart pansies were ripped from their root systems and with lightning moves caladium bulbs took their place.
  • Application of NaCl to the root system of maize plants exerts a strong water stress onto the plants.
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