lateral root

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Lateral roots extend horizontally from the primary root (radicle) and serve to anchor the plant securely into the soil. This branching of roots also contributes to water uptake, and facilitates the extraction of nutrients required for the growth and development of the plant. — BTO

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Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
PREGO	lateral root	2	TAXON

Broader habitats

root BTO:0001188

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool	Corroborated
Pantoea agglomerans 299R `NCBITaxon:1261128`	PREGO	1	2
Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS 571 `NCBITaxon:438753`	PREGO	2	2

Also called

lateral roots — PREGO

Provenance

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