root_system_type

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• Label: Root system type (presence of taproot)
• Entity URI: https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012115
• Type: categorical
• Definition: A root system morphology trait [TO:0000985] which indicates if the root system [PO:0025025] is one where the primary root [PO:0020127] remains the dominant root, developing into a taproot, a long [PATO:0000573], thick [PATO:0000591] root with few branches, or whether the lateral roots [PO:0020121] are of similar length to the primary root.;Variable describing whether a plant has a tap root.
• Additional comments: None
• Allowed values:

  value	description
  tap_root_absent	Tap root not present.
  tap_root_present	Tap root present.
  tap_root_sometimes_present	Tap root sometimes present.

See the AusTraits Plant Dictionary (https://w3id.org/APD/traits/trait_0012115) for additional information about this trait.

Coverage

For this trait, AusTraits includes a total of 803 records. This includes:

• data for 576 species.
• data for 56 families.
• data from 8 datasets (see the portal Citations tab for a list of sources)