One way to kill a tree is to girdle it by cutting a groove a centimeter into the bark all around the trunk of the tree.Why wouldn't girdling work on a large grass?
A) The vascular bundles are in a ring just under the bark.
B) The vascular bundles are scattered throughout the ground tissue.
C) Monocots don't have vascular bundles.
D) Eudicots don't have vascular bundles.
E) Grasses have taproots.

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Girdling, to kill a plant, has to cut through all of the phloem, requiring that the phloem be in a ring, which is not the case in monocots such as grass.

One Way to Kill a Tree Is to Girdle It