What is an example of a plant that has rhizomes? - Intermediate Wheatgrass
Alfalfa needs renovation every - 4-6 years
The greatest advantage of birdsfoot treefoil is - It does not cause bloat
Sweetclover contains ____ which may cause bleeding and disease in livestock -
Coumarin
An ear-shaped appendage, as at the base of barley and wheat leaves is called? -
Auricles
What is the beard or bristle extending from the tip or back of the lemma of a grass
flower? - Awn
What are the glumes and light plant tissue fragment broken in threshing? - Chaff
What is the matured body of a ovule? - Seed
The typical inflorescence of wheat is called - Spike
The legal weight of barley is ___ pounds - 48
____ has small hairy auricles - Barley
Wheat is ready to harvest with a combine when the moisture content is ___________ or
less. - 14%
____ is not a special grade of oats - Light
Barley is considered to be about ____ as valuable as corn for feed, pound for pound -
85-90%
Good seed-soil contact is important so that: - Because the more contact the surface of
the seed has with the surrounding soil, the more rapidly water can move from the soil
into the seed
Fibrous roots have - A high surface to volume ratio
Growth stage of a wheat plant when the first node moves above the soil surface -
Jointing
, A grass stem is called a - Culm
The stomata have two functions, one is the point of entry for CO2 and the second is ___
- Transpiration
Crested wheatgrass is usually a bunch grass because - It usually doesn't for rhizomes
Legumes, such as peas, beans, and alfalfa, convert atmospheric nitrogen into organic
nitrogen due to: - Rhizobium, a bacteria that can enter the root system
Alfalfa is cross pollinated primarily by - Insects
An allele - is an alternate form of a gene
In wheat, from flowering to dead ripe takes - 25-40 days
Insect pollinators are very important for pollination of - Alfalfa
The leading export country of wheat is - Russia (2020)
Oats produce a satisfactory crop on a wide range of soil types; however, heavy, poorly
drained clays are likely to cause the crop to - Lodge
Water vapor loss by plants occurs mainly through the leaves by a process called: -
Transpiration
Which of these crops is a biennial - Sugar beet
Early planted winter wheat may result in? - High moisture use
Root rot injury
Wheat streak mosaic
The field bean (dry edible bean) originated in what country? - Mexico
Higher digestible forage would be low in? - Lignin
Corn is a ____ plant - long day
Crop lodging is most likely caused by? - Not selecting proper varieties
The ideal moisture content at which to store forage for silage is? - 68%
___ is the collective term for the petal of a flower - Corolla
The inoculation of legumes commonly consists of? - Putting bacteria on the seed
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