Tuberous root - Tuberous root

Japanese: 塊根 - かいこん
Tuberous root - Tuberous root

Storage roots are plant roots that swell and store nutrients, but they usually take on a spindle-like tuber shape. Many produce adventitious buds and reproduce vegetatively. They are seen in plants such as snake gourd, sweet potato, and dahlia. These roots swell secondary and store nutrients in the parenchyma cells that make up most of the secondary xylem.

The reserve nutrients are usually sugars, often starch as in sweet potatoes, and in dahlias inulin.

[Eimasa Nishino]

Sweet potato tuber
Roots grow from the stems that crawl above the ground, and some of them swell underground and become potatoes. The shape and color vary depending on the variety. ©Shogakukan Photo by Okuyama Hisashi ">

Sweet potato tuber


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

植物の根が肥大して養分を蓄える働きをする貯蔵根をさすが、普通は紡錘形のいもの形となるものをいう。不定芽をつくって栄養生殖を行うものが多い。カラスウリ、サツマイモ、ダリアなどでみられる。これらの根は二次肥大し、二次木部のほとんどを占める柔細胞の中に養分を蓄える。

 貯蔵養分は糖類が普通で、サツマイモのようにデンプンであることが多く、ダリアではイヌリンである。

[西野栄正]

サツマイモの塊根
地面をはう茎から根が伸び出し、その一部が地中で肥大していもとなる。形や色は品種により異なる©Shogakukan 撮影/おくやまひさし">

サツマイモの塊根


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