rhizome

Also known as rhizomes, rootstalk

thumb|An antique spurge plant, Euphorbia antiquorum, sending out white rhizomes

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A rhizome is an underground stem that grows horizontally through the soil and can sprout new plants from various points along its length. Rhizomes matter because they allow plants like ginger and bamboo to spread and reproduce without needing seeds, making them important for both plant survival and human agriculture.

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Developmental regulation of stolon and rhizome.ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology · 2021Guo L, Plunkert M, Luo X et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2020.10.003
Impact of Thermal Processing on the Selected Biological Activities of Ginger Rhizome-A Review.ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Zagórska J, Czernicka-Boś L, Kukula-Koch W et al.DOI: 10.3390/molecules28010412
Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of rhizome formation in Oryza longistaminata.Plant biotechnology journal · 2024Lian X, Zhong L, Bai Y et al.DOI: 10.1111/pbi.14294
Rhizome trait scaling relationships are modulated by growth conditions and are linked to plant fitness.Annals of botany · 2022Thakur D, Münzbergová ZDOI: 10.1093/aob/mcac023
The chrysanthemum DEAD-box RNA helicase CmRH56 regulates rhizome outgrowth in response to drought stress.Journal of experimental botany · 2022Zhang L, Xu Y, Liu X et al.DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac213
Analysis of Rhizome Development in Oryza longistaminata, a Wild Rice Species.Plant & cell physiology · 2016Yoshida A, Terada Y, Toriba T et al.DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw138
Carbon and nitrogen metabolism affects kentucky bluegrass rhizome expansion.BMC plant biology · 2023Ran F, Yuan Y, Bai X et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04230-x
Steroidal saponins from Trillium tschonoskii rhizome repress cancer stemness and proliferation of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.Bioorganic chemistry · 2022Pang X, Wan LF, Yang J et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2022.105679

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thumb|An antique spurge plant, Euphorbia antiquorum, sending out white rhizomes

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.