Sentence examples for mass of roots from inspiring English sources

I dug in a circle around the plant's stems to produce a mass of roots and soil, called a root ball.

By this point, sections of the climb involved pulling yourself up using root handholds, and the forest floor often was just a spongy mass of roots, moss and voids ready to trap a poorly placed foot.

Clones varied in mass of roots <2 and 2 < 5 mm diameter, but there were no significant differences between them for ≥5-mm roots (Table 4).

For all root diameters, mass of roots beyond 0.5 m was at least 75%% less than within 0.5 m of trees (Table 4).

For trees established from poles, in Y3, mass of roots of <2, 2 < 5, and 5 < 10 mm diameter was 3 6-fold greater in 0 < 0.5 m soil depth than deeper in the profile (Table 2).

The fresh mass of roots and size of the root were the parameters most negatively affected by the use of SASC, sharply decreasing with the addition of SASC, which may indicate a deficiency in the physical characteristics of the SASC.

The following characteristics were analyzed: mass of the aerial portion, height of aerial portion, mass of root, length of root and total fresh weight.

A Tukey's test comparing the three chosen groups of Sri Lankan accessions (those with high, average and low herbicide scores) showed that root length and root weight distinguished the high herbicide accession from the rest, but root thickness and % root mass (mass of root over mass of plant) did not.

Some growth indices including stem diameter, height of plant, dry and wet mass of plant, dry and wet mass of root, TSS of fruit and fruit yield were measured at the end of growth period.

Rhizomes are masses of roots that grow underground.

Their roots are extremely slippery, steep, and arching, and many of the mangroves create impenetrable masses of roots.