Wheat Flashcards
(48 cards)
What is the name of the study?
Study on the external morphology of wheat Plant
What is the Bengali name for wheat?
Gom
What is the English name for the plant studied?
Wheat
What is the habit of wheat?
An annual cultivated herb.
To which family does wheat belong?
Gramineae (Poaceae)
What is the scientific name of wheat?
Triticum aestivum
What type of roots does wheat have?
Fibrous and adventitious; develop from the basal node of the stem.
Describe the stem of wheat.
Erect, usually glabrous, cylindrical with solid nodes and hollow internodes.
What is the leaf arrangement in wheat?
Simple, sessile, alternate, distichous.
What is the structure of the leaf blade?
Long, narrow, lanceolate, acuminate with parallel venation.
What is the inflorescence type of wheat?
Spike of spikelets.
What surrounds the stem at the leaf sheath?
A thin, membranous, colorless structure called the ligule.
What are auricles in wheat?
Two hairy structures present at both ends of the junction of the leaf blade and leaf sheath.
What is a spikelet?
Variable number of florets and two empty glumes.
What are the characteristics of the lower florets?
Fertile and terminal are rudimentary or absent.
What does the fertile floret consist of?
A lemma, a palea, and a flower
Describe the flower of wheat.
Sessile, incomplete, bracteate, zygomorphic, bisexual, hypogynous, and irregular.
What does the perianth of wheat consist of?
Two broad, thick, and transparent lodicules.
How many stamens does wheat have?
Three, with slender filaments and bi-lobed versatile anthers.
Describe the gynoecium of wheat.
Monocarpellary, ovary obovate, hairy, superior, with a reduced or short style and bifurcated feathery stigma.
What type of fruit does wheat produce?
Caryopsis.
What is the floral formula for wheat?
Br. % 5 P 2 (lodicules) A 3 G
What are the family identifying characters of wheat?
Inflorescence spikelet, anthers versatile, basal placentation, fruit caryopsis, stigmas feathery.
Name other species related to wheat.
Rice (Oryza sativa), Maize (Zea mays), Barley (Hordeum vulgare), Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum).
