Despite long‐time awareness of the importance of the location of buds in plant biology,
research on belowground bud banks has been scant. Terms such as lignotuber, xylopodium …

Background Below-ground bud banks have experienced much recent interest due to
discoveries that they (1) account for the majority of seasonal population renewal in many …

Clonal growth of plants is attained by a number of morphologically different organs (eg
stolons, rhizomes, and roots), which are not functionally equivalent. Consequently, these …

Spring regrowth in temperate perennials relies on renewal buds, which form a key
component in the shoot growth cycle. Still, we possess almost no information on these …

Premise Geophytes—plants that typically possess a bulb, corm, tuber, and/or rhizome—
have long captured the attention of hobbyists and researchers. However, despite the …

By mainly focusing on leaves and roots, functional ecology has been omitting an important
dimension of plant form and function. Horizontal spacers (rooting stems and roots with …

Plants with clonal growth can produce multiple potentially independent units, termed ramets.
Clonal growth can have important ecological and evolutionary consequences, such as by …

Plants rely on roots for absorption of nutrients from the soil. Differences in traits of fine roots
and of the root system in general thus underlie differences among individual species in their …

Abstract Background and Aims Root sprouting (RS), ie the ability to form adventitious buds
on roots, is an important form of clonal growth in a number of species, and serves as both a …

Plants possess a large variety of nonacquisitive belowground organs, such as rhizomes,
tubers, bulbs, and coarse roots. These organs determine a whole set of functions that are …