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1 - Morphology of The Rice Plant

This document summarizes the key parts of the rice plant: - Roots include seminal and adventitious roots that draw in water and nutrients from the soil. - Stems and leaves include tillers, culms, and leaves. Tillers grow from the main culm and bear their own roots, culms, leaves, and panicles. Culms function for photosynthesis and respiration. - Reproductive organs include the panicle and spikelets. The panicle bears spikelets which each contain a flower with six stamens and a pistil that develops into the rice grain.

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1 - Morphology of The Rice Plant

This document summarizes the key parts of the rice plant: - Roots include seminal and adventitious roots that draw in water and nutrients from the soil. - Stems and leaves include tillers, culms, and leaves. Tillers grow from the main culm and bear their own roots, culms, leaves, and panicles. Culms function for photosynthesis and respiration. - Reproductive organs include the panicle and spikelets. The panicle bears spikelets which each contain a flower with six stamens and a pistil that develops into the rice grain.

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MORPHOLOGY

OF THE RICE PLANT


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PARTS OF THE RICE PLANTS:

a.Roots
b.Stems and leaves
c.Reproductive organs
d.Grain
Roots – serve as support; draw food
and water from the soil and store food;
rice plant has a fibrous root system
Two kinds of roots:

 Seminal roots – grow out of the


radicle and are temporary in nature
 Secondary adventitious roots – freely
branched and produced from the lower
nodes of the young culm
Germinating Seed
Roots
Tiller – bears the root, culm, leaves,
and often a panicle

- tillers grow out of the main culm


in an alternate order

- primary tillers grow from the lowest


most nodes and gives rise to
secondary tillers
Tiller
Culm or stem - function as the principal
organ of photosynthesis and
respiration;
- made up of nodes of
nodes and internodes in alternate
order. The node bears a leaf and a
bud, which may grow into a tiller, or
shoot
Culm
Leaf
Leaf
Leaf
 Leaves are named as first, second, third leaf, and so on,
in the order they emerged

 Number of fully developed leaves on the main culm is


an indication of the physiological growth stage
of a given variety

 During vegetative plant growth, there is a close relationship


between the appearance of each tiller and the emergence
of leaves on the main culm
Panicle & Spikelets – floral organs
Panicle - stands erect at blooming, but usually
drops as they fill, mature, develops into grains
- varieties (inbred or hybrid) differ
panicle length, shape, angle of the primary
branches, and the weight of the overall
panicle
Panicle & Spikelets
Panicle & Spikelets

Each individual spikelet contains a set


of floral parts flanked by the lemma
and palea
Spikelet
Floret
Flower

 There are 6 stamens in each rice flower


 Pistil consists of the ovary, the style,
 The stamens are composed of two-
and the stigma
celled anthers borne on the slender filaments
 The stigma catches the pollen from the
stamens and conducts it down to the
ovary
Before opening of the The anther filaments
spikelet, tip of lemma elongate and anthers
and palea begin to exserted completely
open

Anthers come out, Anthers are left outside


scattering pollen and die. Closed spikelet
will never open again.
anthers droop.
Rice Grain – ripened ovary containing
a
live embryo capable of
germinating to produce a
plant
The rest of the grain consists
largely of endosperm (edible
portion)
Rice Grain
Rice Grain
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