How potato turmeric, garlic, ginger, and sugarcane store food are modified stems define?
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In these cases, stems are modified to perform some special functions.
potatoe is a stem tuber: that is underground stem becm enlarged at growing tip by storing food
ginger,Turmeric- stem grows horizontally under soil, stem is thick and fleshy due to storage of food materials
sugar cane : stilt root
root develops from lower nodes of stem, these roots grow obliquely downwards and support the stem ( I attached its fig here hav a look if u r confused
garlic: Bulb- short underground stem with fleshy scale leaves, stem is reduced and becm disc like with highly compressed inter nodes, from the nodes, scale leaves arises and these scale leaves becm fleshy and store food material
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potatoe is a stem tuber: that is underground stem becm enlarged at growing tip by storing food
ginger,Turmeric- stem grows horizontally under soil, stem is thick and fleshy due to storage of food materials
sugar cane : stilt root
root develops from lower nodes of stem, these roots grow obliquely downwards and support the stem ( I attached its fig here hav a look if u r confused
garlic: Bulb- short underground stem with fleshy scale leaves, stem is reduced and becm disc like with highly compressed inter nodes, from the nodes, scale leaves arises and these scale leaves becm fleshy and store food material
happy to help you
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