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• Roots


  The important underground part of all vascular plants
• Roots


  • Anchoring the plant down into the ground
  • Absorbing essential mineral elements, nutrients, and water from the soil
  • Storing food
• Functions of roots


  • Anchorage
  • Absorption
  • Storage
  • Reproduction
  • Ecological Function
• Roots are the reason plants remain attached to the ground
• Roots support the plant body, ensuring that it stands erect
• Primary function of roots

  To absorb water and dissolved minerals from the soil, which is crucial for the process of photosynthesis
• Plants prepare food and store it in the form of starch in the leaves, shoots and roots
• Prominent examples of plants that store food in roots

  • Carrots
  • Radish
  • Beetroot
• Even though roots are not the reproductive part of plants, they are vegetative parts
• In some plants, the roots are a means of reproduction
• Roots check soil erosion, provide sustenance and also habitat to various organisms