I Introduction
- Primary Growth
- Secondary Growth
II Roots
- Types of roots
- Root tip
1. root cap
2. meristem
3. quiescent center
III Stem
- Functions of stem
- Organization of shoot
- nodes and internodes
- short shoots
- phyllotaxis
- leaf attachment
- buds
- Shoot apex
- apical cell in lower vascular plants
- cytohistical zonation type of organization
- tunica-corpus type of organization
- formation of leaf primordia
- tissue layers and differentiation
- Structure of the shoot
- epidermis
- vascular tissue
- leaf trace and leaf gap
- transition region
- Modifications of the shoot
- tendrils
- stolons
- rhizomes, tubers, corms, bulbs
- thorns
IV Leaves
- General structure
- External leaf types
- Internal leaf structure