Tiller

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The seedling will grow and develop branched tillers. Parts of the rice tiller include the roots, culm and leaves. Mature roots of the rice plant are fibrous and produce smaller roots called rootlets. All roots have root hairs to absorb moisture and nutrients.

Fig. 7 - Parts of the rice tiller.

There are two kinds of mature roots:

1. secondary adventitious roots

2. adventitious prop roots.

Secondary adventitious roots are produced from the underground nodes of young tillers.

As the plant grows, coarse adventitious prop roots often form above the soil surface in whorls from the nodes of the culm.

Fig. 10 - Adventitious prop  roots.