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    Morphology and Growth Development of Rice Plant Prepared by: Milaez, Ronalyn Ll. BSAD III (Ag.

    Ed

    What is Morphology?
    The term morphology is

    Greek and is a makeup of morph- meaning 'shape, form', and -ology which means 'the study of something'.

    What is Rice?
    Rice is the seed of the monocot plants

    Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima. As a

    cereal grain, it is the most widely


    consumed staple food for a large part

    of the world's human population,


    especially in Asia.

    rice
    Rice is generally considered a semiaquatic

    annual grass, although in the tropics it can survive as a perennial, producing new tillers from nodes after harvest (ratooning). At maturity the rice plant has a main stem and a number of tillers. Each productive tiller bears a terminal flowering head or panicle.

    Plant height varies by variety

    and environmental conditions, ranging from approximately 0.4 m to over 5 m in some floating rice.

    The morphology of rice

    Seeds
    The rice grain, commonly called a seed,

    consists of the true fruit or brown rice (caryopsis) and the hull, which encloses the brown rice. The palea, lemmas, and rachilla constitute the hull of indica rices.

    A single grain weighs about 10-45

    mg at 0% moisture content. Grain length, width, and thickness vary widely among varieties. Hull weight averages about 20% of total grain weight.

    Seedlings

    Germination and seedling development start when seed dormancy has been broken and the seed absorbs adequate water and is exposed to a temperature ranging from about 10 to 40 oC. The physiological definition of germination is usually the time when the radicle or coleoptile (embryonic shoot) emerges from the ruptured seed coat.

    Tillering plants
    Each stem of rice is made up of a series of nodes and

    internodes. The internodes vary in length depending on variety and environmental conditions, but generally increase from the lower to upper part of the stem. Each upper node bears a leaf and a bud, which can grow into a tiller. The

    number of nodes varies from 13 to 16 with only the upper 4


    or 5 separated by long internodes.

    Panicle and spikelets


    The major structures of the panicle

    are the base, axis, primary and secondary branches, pedicel, rudimentary glumes, and the spikelets.

    The panicle axis extends from the panicle base to the apex; it

    has 8-10 nodes at 2- to 4-cm intervals from which primary branches develop. Secondary branches develop from the primary branches. Pedicels develop from the nodes of the primary and secondary branches; the spikelets are positioned above them. Since rice has only one fully developed floret (flower) per spikelet, these terms are often used interchangeably. The flower is enclosed in the lemma and palea, which may be either awned or awnless. The flower consists of the pistil and stamens, and the components of the pistil are the stigmas, styles, and ovary.

    The End!!!

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