Adventitious Root - forms above ground and helps support the plant
Agrarianism - the belief that farming is the only way to live and the most important thing
anyone can do
Aleurone Layer - produces enzyme (amylase) that break down starches of endosperm
and thus mobilize energy for germination
Annuals - plants that complete their lifecycle in one season(year) or less
Biennials - plants that complete their lifecycle in two seasons(years)
Perennials - plants that grow year after year without replanting
Catch Crop - a fast-growing crop that is grown between successive plantings of a main
crop; crops grown after the regular crop has failed
Chloroplast - the organelle in a plant cell where photosynthesis occurs
Coleoptile - the sheath covering the embryonic leaf and apical meristem as it emerges
from the soil
Coleorhiza - a sheath protecting the root of a germinating grass or cereal grain.
Companion Crop - grown with another crop to ensure a yield in the first year of a new
seeding; also can serve to protect the desired establishing crop
Cultivar - asexually cloned or by controlled crossing of breeding lines; man made
Dioecious - having male reproductive organs in one individual and female in another;
having staminate and pistillate flowers borne on different individuals
Endosperm - starchy interior of a grain, serves as food for germination seed, bulk
portion of mature kernel of any grass
Epigeal Germination - seed is raised above the ground
Hypogeal Germination - the seed remains below ground
Floret - reproductive unit within a spikelet
Forage Crops - are grass and legume plant species that are grown for livestock feed;
hay
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