axillary bud

Examples of axillary bud in the following topics:

• Functions of Stems

  • A stem connects the roots to the leaves, provides support, stores food, and holds the leaves, flowers, and buds.
  • Their main function is to provide support to the plant, holding leaves, flowers, and buds; in some cases, stems also store food for the plant.
  • An axillary bud is usually found in the axil (the area between the base of a leaf and the stem) where it can give rise to a branch or a flower.
  • The apex (tip) of the shoot contains the apical meristem within the apical bud.
  • The leaves just above the nodes arise from axillary buds.

• Stem Modifications

  • Vertical shoots may arise from the buds on the rhizome of some plants, such as ginger and ferns.
  • Tubers arise as swollen ends of stolons, and contain many adventitious or unusual buds (familiar to us as the "eyes" on potatoes).
  • Modifications to the aerial stems, vegetative buds, and floral buds of plants perform functions such as climbing, protection, and synthesis of food vegetative propagation .
  • These may develop from either the axillary bud or the terminal bud of the stem.
  • Bulbils are axillary buds that have become fleshy and rounded due to storage of food.

• Primary and Secondary Growth in Stems

  • The influence of the apical bud on overall plant growth is known as apical dominance, which diminishes the growth of axillary buds that form along the sides of branches and stems.
  • If the apical bud is removed, then the axillary buds will start forming lateral branches.
  • Gardeners make use of this fact when they prune plants by cutting off the tops of branches, thus encouraging the axillary buds to grow out, giving the plant a bushy shape.

• Fungi Reproduction

  • Fungi can reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing spores, or sexually with homothallic or heterothallic mycelia.
  • Fungi reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing spores.
  • Somatic cells in yeast form buds.
  • During budding (a type of cytokinesis), a bulge forms on the side of the cell, the nucleus divides mitotically, and the bud ultimately detaches itself from the mother cell.
  • Yet others bud off the vegetative parent cell.

• Types of Sexual and Asexual Reproduction

  • Animals may reproduce asexually through fission, budding, fragmentation, or parthenogenesis.
  • Budding is a form of asexual reproduction that results from the outgrowth of a part of a cell or body region leading to a separation from the original organism into two individuals.
  • Budding occurs commonly in some invertebrate animals such as corals and hydras .
  • In hydras, a bud forms that develops into an adult, which breaks away from the main body; whereas in coral budding, the bud does not detach and multiplies as part of a new colony.
  • Hydra reproduce asexually through budding, where a bud forms that develops into an adult and breaks away from the main body.

• Signaling in Yeast

  • Budding yeasts are able to participate in a process that is similar to sexual reproduction that entails two haploid cells combining to form a diploid cell .
  • In order to find another haploid yeast cell that is prepared to mate, budding yeasts secrete a signaling molecule called mating factor.
  • Budding Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells can communicate by releasing a signaling molecule called mating factor.

• Tastes and Odors

  • This chemoreception in regards to taste, occurs via the presence of specialized taste receptors within the mouth that are referred to as taste cells and are bundled together to form taste buds.
  • These taste buds, located in papillae which are found across the tongue, are specific for the five modalities: salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami.
  • Humans detect taste using receptors called taste buds.
  • Humans detect taste using receptors called taste buds.

• Meristems

  • Meristematic tissues are found in many locations, including near the tips of roots and stems (apical meristems), in the buds and nodes of stems, in the cambium between the xylem and phloem in dicotyledonous trees and shrubs, under the epidermis of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs (cork cambium), and in the pericycle of roots, producing branch roots.
  • The apical meristem, also known as the "growing tip," is an undifferentiated meristematic tissue found in the buds and growing tips of roots in plants .
  • Its main function is to trigger the growth of new cells in young seedlings at the tips of roots and shoots and forming buds.
  • Its main function is to begin growth of new cells in young seedlings at the tips of roots and shoots (forming buds, among other things).

• Male Hormones

  • Secondary sex characteristics include a deepening of the voice, the growth of facial, axillary, and pubic hair, and the beginnings of the sex drive.

• Reception and Transduction

  • The primary organ of taste is the taste bud.
  • A taste bud is a cluster of gustatory receptors (taste cells) that are located within the bumps on the tongue called papillae (singular: papilla) .
  • In contrast, fungiform papillae, which are located mainly on the anterior two-thirds of the tongue, each contain one to eight taste buds; they also have receptors for pressure and temperature.
  • The large circumvallate papillae contain up to 100 taste buds and form a V near the posterior margin of the tongue.