{"id":41,"date":"2023-04-10T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/?p=41"},"modified":"2023-04-18T13:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:56:46","slug":"holy-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/2023\/04\/10\/holy-mole\/","title":{"rendered":"holy mole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Woah! I am flabbergasted at the rate at which the bean plant is growing. It has amassed so much height and now has two full, true leaves a good distance above the cotyledon. These leaves are produced by axillary buds, and the terminal bud is visible between them. This is where auxin is produced, a hormone that induces growth via cell division, as well as inhibiting the growth of lateral buds lower on the stem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4121-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">figure 1. Growing bean shoot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The terminal bud also houses the shoot apical meristem, where undifferentiated cells undergo mitosis, increasing the shoot&#8217;s height. The apical meristem gives rise to three primary meristems, the protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium, which produce the epidermis, ground tissue, and vascular tissue, respectively.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondary growth, which increases the width of the stem, is induced by the lateral meristems: cork cambium and vascular cambium. The structures involved in secondary growth, including the vascular system, are diagramed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-1536x997.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/files\/2023\/04\/IMG_4169-2048x1329.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">figure 2. Secondary growth structures in plant stems<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah! I am flabbergasted at the rate at which the bean plant is growing. It has amassed so much height and now has two full, true leaves a good distance above the cotyledon. These leaves are produced by axillary buds, and the terminal bud is visible between them. This is where auxin is produced, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/2023\/04\/10\/holy-mole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">holy mole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"thelms","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/author\/thelms\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/thelmsbabyplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}