stolon
IPA: stˈoʊɫʌn
noun
- (botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
- (zoology) A structure formed by some colonial organisms from which offspring are produced by budding, found in bryozoans, pterobranchs, some corals, and other invertebrates.
- (mycology) A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
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Examples of "stolon" in Sentences
- Stolons arise from the base of the plant.
- Thank you very much for editing and clean up of stolon.
- David's stolon link led me to tuber, where I learnt this.
- Often, roots grow naturally from the nodes on the stolon.
- Before new tuber formation begins the stolon must be a certain age.
- "This much anyway," he added, holding a broken stolon in his fingers.
- In many weeks, cobra plants will protrude from each section of stolon.
- In fact, the potatoes are not attached to the root system but a stolon.
- The plant reproduces by seed and rhizome and it sometimes spreads via stolon.
- Early tuber development from explanted stolon nodes of Solanum tuberosum var.
- The stolon article has it right, but the tuber and rhizome articles are wrong.
- Mother and daughter plants are connected by a short stolon, forming dense mats.
- If the grass produces a stolon, it is usually possible to make cuttings from the individual nodes.
- 1 A stolon is a stem that grows along the ground, producing at its nodes new plants with roots and upright stems.
- The tubers are the swollen ends of stolons arising from the crown of the plant; each stolon bears only one tuber.
- The first thing I saw on the Marylebone platform was the crude picture in green chalk of a stolon of _Cynodon dactylon_.
- Some grasses (e.g. dubo and kikiyu) can also be propagated from stolon cuttings1, but these are not normally used in bio-engineering.
- If this happens you only have to cut the stolon mid-way between the nodes and carefully transplant it with its roots and shoots intact.
- The plant grows best in cool moist conditions under short day-lengths of about 12 hours (the production of stolons and stolon-borne tubers is stimulated by even shorter days of 10 hours).
- The Phlox family is a numerous one, and the species are not only numerous but extremely dissimilar, consisting of the dwarf woody trailers, or _P. procumbens_ section, the oval-leafed section (_P. ovata_), the creeping or stolon-rooted (_P. stolonifera_) section, and the one now under notice, which differs so widely that many have seemed puzzled that these bold tall plants are so closely related to the prostrate, Whin-like species.