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people.","Wild root harvesting has driven some medicinal plants close to extinction."],"affectedParties":["Trees and plants","People near trees","Owners of land and property"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the organ in general; the landowner answers for plants on their land.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q24060707","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"plant organ","type":"related","note":"category"},{"target":"nitrogen fixation","type":"related","note":"root nodules"},{"target":"annual-ring","type":"related","note":"other plant structure"},{"target":"root (mathematics)","type":"related","note":"other sense"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.root","Wikidata: Q41500 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41500)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Root length:  mm - Measure along an identified root axis and specify whether the result describes one root or the summed root system.","Root diameter:  mm - Measure across the root at a stated position because diameter varies with species, age and root function.","Water mass fraction:  percent - Determine water loss from fresh and dried samples and state whether the percentage uses fresh mass or dry mass as its basis.","Dry mass:  g - Weigh cleaned root material after drying to constant mass under a documented method."]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Below ground, no leaves or nodes","Taproot or fibrous systems","Rhizomes and tubers are stems, not roots","Branching underground structures, fleshy or fibrous, with root hairs."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain root types and functions","support gardening and transplanting","describe edible and medicinal root uses with cautions","separate other senses of root"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Poisonous roots mistaken for edible ones","Unsupported medicinal claims","Root damage during construction"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Herbal medicine regulations","Novel food rules for root products","Plant health rules for root imports"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Plant biology, horticulture, food and herbal traditions.","taproots","fibrous roots","adventitious and aerial roots","storage roots such as carrots","medicinal and culinary roots"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q41500: root","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41500","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Root","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should each root type be a separate entry?","How should herbal evidence be linked?","How should other senses be split?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q41500/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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