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monocots (noun) - Monocots are a type of flowering plant characterized by having seeds with only one embryonic leaf (cotyledon). Examples of monocots include grasses, lilies, orchids, and palms. They are distinct from dicots, which have seeds with two embryonic leaves
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It is absent in monocots and in the roots of dicots.
Monocots usually have a fibrous root system.
The leaves of monocots display parallel veins.
Embryo development differs in monocots and dicots.
Most monocots have fibrous root systems.
Suitable plants include dicots and monocots.
The remaining monocots are a paraphyletic unit.
This type is usually seen in monocots plants.
Only monocots are excluded from the assessment.
The difference between monocots and dicots.
Not all monocots develop like the grasses.
This is true to some extent of almost all monocots.
Leaves of monocots have parallel venation.
It particularly targets dicots as most monocots are immune.
Monocots have only one cotyledon in their seeds.

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Digestibility coefficients of monocots and dicots did not differ.
The process varies between dicots and monocots.
So primitive characters of monocots may be present in some derived groups.
Similar methods have been reported in the transformation of monocots.
Differentiate between monocots and dicots.
The CaMV promoter is also highly active in monocots.
It is absent in monocots and in roots.
The methods of the invention particularly improve monocots.
Monocots have fibrous roots.
Angiosperms are further divided into monocots and dicots.
Flowers of monocots typically have three petals or multiples thereof.
Fertilization and pollination of monocots.
Monocots are highly diversified.
Described are also methods for plants which are monocots or dicots.
Method for micropropagation of monocots based on sustained totipotent cell cultures.
No conspicuous relationship exists between body size and consumption of monocots.
Barker had completed a collection of monocots there prior to her retirement.
In agriculture the majority of the biomass produced comes from monocots.
Excluding monocots from the dicots makes the latter a paraphyletic group.
Most common in monocots.
Monocots do not have disc nectaries whereas in dicots they are widespread.
The differences indicated are more true for monocots versus eudicots.
Monocots by location.
Host plants useful in the present invention are monocots and dicots.
Monocots by country.
Plants suitable for genetic modification include monocots and dicots.
Monocots and dicots are both fertilized by pollen and grow from a seed.
Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the monocots are a development from a dicot ancestor.
Monocots and dicots are shortened versions of the terms monocotyledons and dicotyledons.
These are typically more elongated in the leaves of monocots than in those of dicots.
Somatic cells of monocots differentiate quickly and then lose mitotic and morphogenic capability.
Bromeliaceae constitute a great and diverse group of monocots with neotropical origin.
Plants are classified as monocots and dicots depending upon number of cotyledons their seeds contain.
They are typically more elongated in the leaves of monocots than in those of dicots.
Monocots generally do not have secondary growth and hence do not have vascular cambium.

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