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What is a plant swelling?

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Plant parts are swollen in many cases due to storage of food. In some aquatic plants, some plant parts like leaf petiole are swollen due to air chambers so that these plants can float in water.

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If it is not the young fruit or seed pod it may be a gall.

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Root-nodules

and the contain nitrogen fixing bacteria

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nodules (as in root nodules)

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a root that is swollen

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nodules

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