For example, storage roots of sweet potato have secondary growth but are not woody.

They bores into the main stem and sometimes penetrate the storage roots.

As an example of a combination, juno irises have both bulbs and storage roots.

They are herbaceous perennials with corms and enlarged storage roots.

A type of storage root distinct from taproot.

The disease causes a watery soft rot of the internal portion of the storage root.

Storage roots: these roots are modified for storage of food or water, such as carrots and beets.

Unlike trees, they will be able to grow deep storage roots and place carbon back in the coal seams and oil fields from which it came.

The plants produces a perennial rhizome to which the edible succulent storage roots are attached, the principal economic product of the plant.

Storage roots consist of sausage-like water storing structures "suspended" from the rhizome by major roots.

There are true roots: taproots (celeriac, carrots); and storage roots (sweet potatoes).

It forms new perennial root crowns from stem nodes touching the ground, with thick storage roots growing as deep as 1 m.

Varieties specifically grown for the leaves resemble mustard greens more than those grown for the roots, with small or no storage roots.

The taproot (the normal root below the swollen storage root) is thin and 10 centimeters or more in length; it is trimmed off before marketing.

Yacón storage roots are traditionally used by farmers at mid-elevations in the eastern slopes of the Andes that descend toward the Amazon.

A tuberous root or storage root, is a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ.

The enlarged area of the root-tuber, or storage root, can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root.

They have not been shown to cause direct damage to the enlarged storage roots, but plants can have reduced height if there was loss of enlarged root weight.

Many store food overwinter in fleshy stems, roots and leaf bases; deep storage roots are restricted to dry areas of the subarctic, where the spring thaw comes early.

Symptoms of R. stolonifer infection of sweet potatoes include rapid development of a watery soft rot of the internal portion of the storage root with the periderm generally remaining intact.

The use of nematicides has been found to result in lower numbers of galls per feeder root compared to a control, coupled with a lower number of rots in the storage roots.

For example, to insure their survival, some species must form dormant winter buds, others must begin storing food in tubers, bulbs or thick storage roots, and still others must have time to develop frost-hardy cell walls.

The crop is sensitive to drought at the tuber initiation stage 50-60 days after planting, and it is not tolerant to water-logging, as it may cause tuber rots and reduce growth of storage roots if aeration is poor.