Fruits
This is a fruit type characterized by a single seed encased in a hard endocarp surrounded by a fleshy or pulpy exterior.
What is a drupe?
This is the main method of weed control in rice fields.
What is flooding?
This product comes from the leaf trimmings of Camellia sinensis.
What is tea?
This is the process during wine production in which yeast converts sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
What is fermentation?
This versatile tropical fruit crop can be used not only for food but also for fiber, fuel, cosmetics, building materials, and more.
What is coconut?
This country is known to be the origin of the modern day garden strawberry.
What is France?
This is a mixture of proteins found in wheat and related grains, it gives dough its elasticity and is responsible for the chewiness of grain products.
What is gluten?
Saffron is propagated by splitting this structure of the plant.
What is a corm?
These are the stages of a fruit during maturation, including kimri, khalal, rutab, and tamar.
What is date palm?
This is the Latin phrase in the scientific name for cacao that roughly translates to “food of the gods.”
What is Theobroma?
This gaseous plant hormone is used in the ripening of green fruit such as bananas to get mature product to consumers in a timely manner.
What is ethylene?
This group of plant pigments gives us yellow-orange-red coloration in many vegetables.
What is carotenoids?
This oil found in black pepper gives it its pungency.
What is piperine?
This bitter alkaloid found in chocolate is chemically similar to caffeine and contributes to cacao’s stimulating effects.
What is theobromine?
This propagation method for date palms preserves genetic uniformity among cultivated trees.
What is offshoots?
This term refers to the production of fruit without pollination of a flower.
What is parthenocarpy?
This is the name of corn's wild relative that has very few kernels that fall off easily.
What is Teosinte?
This is a central nervous system stimulant (CNS) that acts by blocking binding of adenosine at a number of adenosine receptor types, inhibiting the centrally depressant effects of adenosine.
What is caffeine?
This high-quality, soft, and sweet date cultivar—often considered the premier export—originates from North Africa and is widely grown in the U.S.
What is the Medjool date?
This tiny insect pest devastated European vineyards in the 19th century and led to the adoption of grafted grape rootstocks.
What is phylloxera?
The genus Capsicum refers to this group of plants.
What is peppers?
Sulfur and nitrogen-rich secondary metabolites unique to Brassicaceae.
What is glucosinolates?
Nitrogenous organic substances produced by plants as a secondary metabolite, and which have an intense physiological action on animals even at low doses.
What is an alkaloid?
These above-ground horizontal stems help turfgrasses spread by forming new roots and shoots at their nodes.
What is a stolon?
This warm-season grass species is famously grown in LSU’s Tiger Stadium.
What is Celebration bermudagrass?