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Image Title: Scanning electron micrograph of radicle emergence (lower left) of perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne
Image Credit: Susan B. Debaene-Gill, Brigham Young University
AJB Editor: Nels R. Lersten, Iowa State University
Intended End User: Teacher, Student
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Copyright held by:  Susan B. Debaene-Gill, BSA
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The coleorhiza epidermis has root hairlike extensions that elongate (upper right) during radicle emergence (lower left) of perennial ryegrass, Lolium perenne. Artifically colored scanning electron micrograph.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Morphology of the perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne; Poacease) coleorhiza and emerging radicle with continuous or discontinuous hydration

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