Lecture 3-A (Classification of Crops)

Question 1

CROPS

Answer 1

cultivated plants grown for human food and animal feed

Question 2

IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS

Answer 2

1) taxonomic classification based on morphology, and other markers
2) descriptive - based on environmental adaptation, growth habit and other observable features
3) classification based on phylogenetic relationship

Question 3

AGRICULTURAL CLASSIFICATION

Answer 3

1) useful vs not useful
2) vary from place to place
3) differences in primary usage
4) intensity of care
5) extent of cultivation

Question 4

CLASSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS

Answer 4

1) food crops
2) non-food crops
3) staple crops
4) cereal/grain
5) legume/pulses
6) root and tuber crops
7) oil seed crops
8) sugar and sweetener
9) beverage
10) rubber, latex and gum

Question 5

CLASSIFICATION OF CROPS

Answer 5

1) manner of culture (agronomic vs horticultural)
2) use
3) climatic requirement (temperate, topical)
4) mode of reproduction
5) length of life cycle
6) habitat

Question 6

CLASSIFICATION BASED ON USE

Answer 6

1) cereals
2) seed legumes
3) fiber
4) drug
5) sugar
6) oil
7) forage
8) vegetable
9) fruits
10) plantation
11) ornamentals

Question 7

VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION BY FAMILY

Answer 7

1) cole crops or crucifers
2) cucurbits
3) legumes vegetable
4) lilies
5) solanaceous

Question 8

COLE CROPS: CRUCIFERS
(VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 8

1) any of several brassicas (broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and kohlrabi)
2) derived from the same wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea)

Question 9

CUCURBITS
(VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 9

1) Cucurbitaceae (gourd family)
2) plant family consisting of around a hundred genera
3) most important are: (1) cucurbita - squash, pumpkin, zucchini, some gourds; (2) lagenaria - mostly inedible gourds

Question 10

LEGUMES
(VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 10

1) refers to plants whose fruit is enclosed in a pod
2) “pulse” only refers to the dried seed

Question 11

LILIES
(VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 11

1) Lilium of the family Liliaceae, the lily family
2) any of a genus of erect-perennial leafy-stemmed bulbous herb

Question 12

SOLANACEOUS
(VEGETABLE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 12

1) any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon

Question 13

CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SPECIAL PURPOSE

Answer 13

1) green manure
2) catch
3) cover
4) companion
5) trap
6) soilage
7) silage

Question 14

GREEN MANURE
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 14

1) usually legumes
2) crops grown for a specific period and then plowed under and incorporated into the soil to improve soil fertility

Question 15

CATCH
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 15

1) fast-growing crops grown simultaneously with or between successive plantings of a main crop

Question 16

COVER
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 16

1) crop grown primarily to provide ground cover to improve soil properties, control erosion, and control weeds

Question 17

COMPANION
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 17

1) crop planted in proximity to another due to the benefits it confer to the other plant (insect-repelling qualities)

Question 18

TRAP
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 18

1) plant grown to protect the main crop from biotic and abiotic factors

Question 19

SOILAGE
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 19

1) forage crops which are cut when green and succulent and are fed to livestock without curing

Question 20

SILAGE
(SPECIAL USE CLASSIFICATION)

Answer 20

1) crops harvested, processed and stored in succulent condition for feeds to livestock