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plant morphology
Sign in to saveAlso known as phytomorphology, morphology of higher plants, structure of plants
subdiscipline of botany
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- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- botany
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- Commons category
- Plant morphology
- topic's main category
- Category:Plant morphology
- has list
- glossary of plant morphology
- different from
- plant anatomy
- facet of
- plant
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Encyclopedic overview
Inflorescences emerging from protective coverings of Angelica gigas Plant morphology or phytomorphology is the study of the physical form and external structure of plants. This is usually considered distinct from plant anatomy, which is the study of the internal structure of plants, especially at the microscopic level. Plant morphology is useful in the visual identification of plants. Recent studies in molecular biology started to investigate the molecular processes involved in determining the conservation and diversification of plant morphologies. In these studies, transcriptome conservation patterns were found to mark crucial ontogenetic transitions during the plant life cycle which may result in evolutionary constraints limiting diversification.
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