Morphology of Rice, Corn, Adlai and Sorghume

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MORPHOLOGY OF

RICE, CORN, ADLAI


and SORGHUME
RICE (Oryza sativa)
-Belongs to the family of cereal grasses.

-Annual grass

-Growing in both flooded and non-flooded soils


PARTS OF THE RICE PLANTS
-Roots

-Stem and Leaves

-Reproductive organs

-Grain
ROOTS
-Serves as support, draw food and
water from the soil, and store food.
-Fibros
-Consist roothairs
-Embryonic roots
-Secondary adventitious roots.
-Adventitous prop roots.
STEM
-Support the leaves and
reproductive structure.

-Transfer essential nutrients


between the roots, the leaves and
the reproductive structure.

-Made up of nodes and internodes.


LEAVES
-Principal organ of photosynthesis and
respiration.

-Contains chlorophyll

-Borne at an angle of 2 ranks.( nodes,


internodes.

-Have both auricles and legules.


REPRODUCTIVE
ORGANS
PANICLE
-Contains the reproductive organs of
the rice plant.

-Bearing the spikelets

-Arranged singly or in pairs.

-Stands erect and blooming.


SPIKELET
-Contains a set of floral parts flank
between lemma and palea.

-Consist 6 stamens and a pistil

-Stamen contains pollen or sperm.

-The pistil consist of ovary (containing


the ovule or egg), the style and the
stigma.
GRAIN
-Seed of the rice plant.

-Composed of the ripened ovary, the lemma and the palea. Consist
the hull or husk.

- Consist largely of endosperm( edible portion) containing starch,


protein, sugar, fats, crude fiber, and inorganic matter.
CORN (ZEA
mIAZE)

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