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Definition of axillary bud in US English: axillary budnoun Botany A bud that grows from the axil of a leaf and may develop into a branch or flower cluster. Also called lateral bud Example sentencesExamples - Whereas leaves remain microscopic even when fully developed, each spine cluster is a modified axillary bud, thus indicating the site where a leaf primordium was formed.
- In most species, removal of the shoot apex allows axillary buds to grow out due to a phenomenon called apical dominance.
- If the leaf left behind was developmentally very young, both the axillary bud and roots grew out only on the leaf side.
- In Amaranthus blitoides and A. crispus the main shoot usually begins to branch during seedling development from axillary buds associated with the cotyledons.
- Each long shoot extends sympodially, bearing three to seven leaves with axillary buds in alternate phyllotaxis.
Definition of axillary bud in US English: axillary budnoun Botany A bud that grows from the axil of a leaf and may develop into a branch or flower cluster. Also called lateral bud Example sentencesExamples - If the leaf left behind was developmentally very young, both the axillary bud and roots grew out only on the leaf side.
- In most species, removal of the shoot apex allows axillary buds to grow out due to a phenomenon called apical dominance.
- In Amaranthus blitoides and A. crispus the main shoot usually begins to branch during seedling development from axillary buds associated with the cotyledons.
- Each long shoot extends sympodially, bearing three to seven leaves with axillary buds in alternate phyllotaxis.
- Whereas leaves remain microscopic even when fully developed, each spine cluster is a modified axillary bud, thus indicating the site where a leaf primordium was formed.
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