A reference section with categories and short explanations.
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Plants with an abnormal distribution of the green pigment — chlorophyll — in their cells, which leads to the appearance of localized color changes on stems (leaves) in the form of patches of various shapes and sizes.
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Change in hereditary constitution and the creation of new forms by crossing plants of different species.
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Asexual, non-seed reproduction of plants in which a new individual is formed by the rooting or grafting of a part of the parent plant. Parts of the stem, leaves, roots, fruits and even individual cells are used for vegetative reproduction.
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Parts of the body of higher plants (root, stem) that perform the main functions of nutrition, growth and exchange of substances with the external environment. They do not participate directly in sexual reproduction, but can serve as organs…
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The time during which a plant exhibits active life processes from awakening in spring until entering winter dormancy.
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The state of active life of a plant, manifested in the uptake of nutrients, growth, development of generative organs and other components of the annual cycle.
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Part of the perianth consisting of petals, colored in various hues, which attract pollinators. Serves as an important morphological character in plant systematics.
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The development of several shoots connected to one another from a single original shoot as a result of the development of apical and lateral buds (growth points).
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A pathogenic microorganism, i.e., a microorganism capable of causing disease.
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The set of an organism's characteristics that determine its degree of viability.
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The process of water exchange. Balance is an optimal water regime; deficit is an unbalanced water regime
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Dense, matted hairs.
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A horticultural technique in which a slow-growing cactus is "grown on" a fast-growing rootstock, then is rooted and continues to live on its own roots.
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The rate at which root hair cells absorb water and the nutrients dissolved in it.
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Young plants that are morphologically distinguished from juveniles by the presence of cotyledons and the absence of developed above-ground organs.
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The potential ability of seeds to germinate, expressed as the percentage of seeds that have germinated in relation to the number sown.
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Various methods of accelerating plant development or of bringing them out of dormancy into an active phase of growth.
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Stagnation.
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(From Latin habitus - appearance, outward aspect) the external appearance of an organism, the natural form of a plant.
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Outgrowths on a plant that form as a result of the action of a parasite.
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(From Greek hals - salt and phyton - plant) - a plant that grows on highly saline soils.
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(From Greek gametes - husband, gamete - wife) - sex cells, in the overwhelming majority of cases having a haploid set of chromosomes; during fertilization two gametes of opposite sexes fuse to form a diploid zygote.
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Dense fog formations in the form of the finest drizzle on the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru resulting from the temperature difference between the surrounding air and the cold coastal current.
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Plants that prefer maximum sunlight.
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Plants that prefer minimal sunlight.
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Fungal disease of cacti.
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(From Greek genos - genus) a hereditary factor, a functionally indivisible unit of genetic material, a segment of a DNA molecule carrying information about the structure of the primary sequence of a somatic or enzymatic protein, transfer o…
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Origin and development of species.
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Part of the stem bearing the organs of sexual reproduction.
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Reproduction by means of seeds, seed reproduction of plants by sexual means as a result of cross-pollination by the transfer of pollen from the stamens of one flower to the stigma of a flower of another plant of the same species.
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(From lam. genero - I give birth, I produce) perform the function of sexual reproduction, otherwise - reproductive organs; in angiosperms (flowering plants) they are represented by female and male gametophytes. At present this concept is o…
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Shoot bearing reproductive organs.
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The science of heredity and variation of organisms.
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The ability of plants transferred to a different habitat to retain, from generation to generation, certain characteristics of the annual development cycles of their ancestors in their homeland.
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(From Greek genos - kin, origin and typos - imprint) the hereditary basis of an organism, the totality of all hereditary information (genes) of a given organism, determining the norm of its reaction under all possible environmental conditi…
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A life form of certain herbaceous plants whose renewal buds are located in the soil.
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(From Latin hybrida, hibrida — mixture) an organism obtained as a result of combining the genetic (hereditary) information of genotypically different (non-identical) organisms.
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Crossing by pollination of genetically different parental forms of organisms to obtain offspring possessing mixed characteristics of the parental pair; the process of obtaining offspring (hybrids) from dissimilar parents.
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Plants produced by hybridization.
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The ability to absorb and retain water.
