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Plant species with shallow or thin main roots had smaller seeds than species with deep or thick main roots, and species with taproots had bigger seeds than plants with fibrous or especially with adventitious roots.

Both transgenic seedlings and cytokinin-treated wild-type controls showed epinastic cotyledons (Figure 1E) and inhibited root development, including shorter main roots and fewer lateral roots (Figure 1F, Table S1).

For each tree, we recorded the total number of main roots and the number of roots under current attack by H. parallelus as well as the total number of adult H. parallelus on each infested root.

For stele and cortex expression studies roots were salt-treated and harvested as described above, lateral roots were removed from main roots and then cortex was stripped from stele of the main root using fine tweezers.

Under both well-watering and dry land (rainfed upland) environments, the upland accessions consistently showed significantly taller plant architecture, fewer tillers, longer main roots and heavier root weights, which supports the previously reported phenotypic differences (Table  1, see Additional file 5 for the phenotypic difference).

(We also cut the slender side shoots from the main root and stored them in a plastic bag in the refrigerator, to plant later or give away).

There is no main root, and the plant body of many taxa is best described as like a thallus, although some species look like odd members of Apiaceae but with two-ranked leaves.

a, b represented the main root and branch root of Pq1; c e represented Pq6, Pq8 and Pq10 respectively.

For the quality evaluation by morphological features with size of main root and color of outer bark should be restricted to the samples from the same growing area with the same harvest season and cultivation technique.

According to the traditional experiences on morphological evaluation and classification of Danshen, it is divided into different grades by their size of main root and the color of outer bark for better transaction in the commercial markets [3].

Up to now, no objective evidences have been found to prove that the bigger size of main root and deeper brown red of appearance of this medicinal plant could indicate the better pharmaceutical quality.