The name is also used for the capping tissue of roots, the root cap.

The root cap protects the growing tip in plants.

The root caps of terrestrials are smooth and white.

Cells are continuously sloughed off the outer surface of the root cap.

The roots of mesophytes are well developed, branched and provided with a root cap.

Favorable entry of young seedlings in the soil occurs through the root cap or from inside the seed.

Modules can be modeled on plant parts such as the root cap and communicate to form a simple swarm intelligence.

Root caps contain statocytes which are involved in gravity perception in plants.

The root cap is a section of tissue at the tip of a plant root.

Further, roots differ in their branching pattern, and in possession of a root cap.

At the tip of each root, there is a small group of tough, dead, hard cells called the root cap.

Cytokinin may be an inhibitor of root cap growth that controls early gravitropism in roots.

The epidermis of roots originates from the layer of cells immediately beneath the root cap.

It is covered by the root cap, which protects the apical meristem from the rocks, dirt and pathogens.

The maize will develop brown lesions on its leaves and will have decreased viability in its root cap cells.

In the root cap (a tissue at the tip of the root) there is a special subset of cells, called statocytes.

The process of hydrotropism is started by the root cap sensing water and sending a signal to the elongating part of the root.

In a dicot embryo, the hypophysis, which is the uppermost cell of the suspensor, differentiates to form part of the root cap.

Root gravitropism requires lateral root cap and epidermal cells for transport and response to a mobile auxin signal.

Afterwards, it must envelope and penetrate the root cap cells and infect them, thus allowing the symbiotic Hartig net and associated structures to form.

Sloughing also occurs in root growth, where cells from the root cap are shed to the soil where they are biologically processed by microorganisms.

At the bottom of this region a cup-shaped root cap covers the apex (tip) and protects the young cells from injury as they are pushed down through the soil.

The gravitropic signal then leads to reorientation of auxin efflux carriers and subsequent redistribution of auxin streams in root cap and root as a whole.

The meristem cells more or less continuously divide, producing more meristem, root cap cells (these are sacrificed to protect the meristem), and undifferentiated root cells.

The root cap is the strongest part of the root tip, and its job is to push its way through the dirt to look for moisture and nutrients and protect the plant.