An adult Arabidopsis plant. A diagram of an adult Arabidopsis plant, showing organs such as roots, rosette leaves, cauline leaves and flowers.
Internodes are the regions of differentiated tissue between successive organs.
Shoot meristems are found at the tip of each active shoot, as well as in the axils of each leaf. Root meristems are found at the tip of the primary root and each lateral root. Please close this window to return to the main article. In such cases, please see the associated PDF file.