Tissue Talk
These are the three tissue systems in the plant body.
What is dermal tissue, ground tissue & vascular tissue?
This many years ago agriculture began in the Fertile Crescent.
What is 13-11,000 years ago?
These are the three essential elements most commonly found on most fertilizer products.
What is N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium)?
Since around the 1940 in the US, this has been the general trend for the size of farms.
What is increased? (from approximately 200 acres per farm to 4.64 acres per farm)
These are fruits that will continue to produce ethylene following their harvest (bananas, pears, etc).
What are climacteric fruits?
These are the three cell types the comprise the plants ground tissue and support tissue.
What is parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma cells?
This term came about after Norman Borlaug combined dwarf, disease resistant plants with high amounts of fertilizers to try and feed masses.
What is the Green Revolution?
These are the primary tissue of roots.
What is the epidermis, cortex, and vascular cylinder?
This is a lack of available food and/or resources to buy or barter for it.
What is food insecurity?
This plant hormone can stimulate the development of virgin fruits, and hastens germination as in barley for beermaking.
What are gibberellins?
These 2 compounds are found cells of the phloem, are deposited on sieve pores when the plant is injured.
What is P-protein and callose?
This institutionalized discrimination (1930-1970ish) by Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) based on race, religion, income, etc, is cited as one of the reasons there is a disparity in tree cover between high and low income neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
These are the primary meristems of the root system from which the primary tissues arise.
What is the protoderm, ground meristem, and procambium?
This is a genetically modified variety of rice that contains beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A.
What is Golden Rice?
This plant hormone prevents germination in seeds.
What is abscisic acid?
What is embryogenesis?
This is the tendency for plants to fall to the background or go unnoticed.
What is Plant Awareness Disparity or Plant Blindness?
This is the genus for Hickories.
What is Carya?
This is when multiple species are grown together to yield benefits such as reducing weeds, preventing soil erosion, increase soil nutrients, improving yield, etc.
What is polycropping or intercropping (a type of polycropping)?
When my neighbor prunes their zinnias shift apical dominance and stimulate growth, this major hormone is being redistributed.
What is auxin?
This is responsible for producing secondary xylem and phloem in stems.
What is the vascular cambium?
Selection in plant attributes that genetically alter plant populations to make them more easily cultivated by humans. For example wheat, barley & flax.
What is domestication?
This is the grass family.
What is Poaceae?
What plants constitute the "three sisters" commonly grown by indigenous peoples?
What is squash, corn, and beans?
These are amyloplasts in the rootcap that perceive gravity.
What are statoliths?