Question

What are breathing roots? How do these help the madhy plants? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Breathing roots help a plant that grows in a marshy area bu the following way: Breathing roots are exposed to the air for at least half a day. To cope up with an anaerobic condition or the oxygen-poor condition, various plants have this adaptivity to get enough air through these breathing roots.

Answer 2

CORRECT QUESTION:-

What are breathing roots? How do these help the marshy plants?

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⇝⇝BREATHING ROOTS

The pneumatophores are the roots that grows above the ground. These grows upward or erect as these grow above the surface of the soil. The mangroove forests have nutrient deficient soil. ... Thus the roots follow the negative geotropism to avail the oxygen hence these roots are called breathing roots.

Q.) How do these help the marshy plants?

These plants grow in marshy areas, which have clayey soil. In clayey soil, plants face deficiency of oxygen. Thus, to obtain oxygen, their roots grow upwards. Such roots that grow upwards (away from the gravity) are called breathing roots.

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