Definition of "ramets" []

• Plural form of ramet. (noun)

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• "Similarly, faced with puzzlement about how many individuals there are in cases of vegetative or clonal “growth”, such as one finds in many plants, the biologist John Harper (1977) distinguished between ramets as individuals that originate through clonal growth, and genets as entities that begin as a seed or fertilized egg."
• "Clearly, its advantage is that one successful culture can give rise to an unlimited number of individual plants (or “ramets”) of a new clone."
• "In aspen, asexual reproduction or clonality is achieved via underground lateral roots that eventually produce new clone members/ramets."