The Role of the Assessor. As mandated by the California State Constitution, the Assessor: Locates and identifies all taxable property in the county. Establishes taxable value for all property subject to property taxation. Completes the assessment roll showing the assessed values of all properties. Applies all legal exemptions.
In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem (from Ancient Greek phÃ½llon leaf and tÃ¡xis arrangement). Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
Gravitropism dictates upward shoot growth, as illustrated by the trees shown at the end of the corn field. The corn plants, on the other hand, were recently prostrated by a heavy storm (a). However, in a few hours, their shoots curved upward, as a result of gravitropism (b). At the end of the 19th century, Ciesielski (1872) and Darwin (1880)demonstrated that a structure at the tip of the roots, the cap, is essential for root gravitropism.