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  • noun Plural form of hypocotyl.

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Examples

  • Symptoms include reddish or brown lesions on the hypocotyls (belowground portion of the stem) and rotting of the lateral roots from one to several weeks after emergence.

    Chapter 10 1981

  • If such an idea as yours, of an absorbing organ, had ever crossed my mind, I would have tried many hypocotyls in weak citrate of ammonia, to see if it penetrated on line of junction more easily than elsewhere.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • However, unlike WT embryos no clear distinction in expression pattern could be made between the embryonic root and the hypocotyls.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010

  • No surprise by now that they're not tubers, but enlarged hypocotyls (the portion of the stem of a seedling between the seed leaves and the roots).

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • In adult embryos expression was detected in the QC and future endodermis of the embryonic roots and in the hypocotyls.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010

  • Cyclamen, gloxinia and celeriac also have enlarged hypocotyls.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • Gravity-induced modifications to development in hypocotyls of Arabidopsis tubulin mutants.

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

  • Cyclamen, gloxinia and celeriac also have enlarged hypocotyls.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • A: Polar auxin transport assays in wild-type and ein2 hypocotyls.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Margaret Pullen et al. 2010

  • No surprise by now that they're not tubers, but enlarged hypocotyls (the portion of the stem of a seedling between the seed leaves and the roots).

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

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