Lecture 8: Rosaceae Flashcards
What is the type, flower, androecium, and fruit characteristics of rosaceae?
Herbs, shrubs, trees
Flowers bisexual, radial, 5-merous
Androecium: many stamens
Fruit: variable: pome, drupe, aggregate
True or False: Many Rosaceae contain cyanides in the leaves and seeds.
True
Grafting allows the selection and preservation of ______.
Somatic mutants
____ is any technique in which a part of shoot (can be even a single bud) called scion is inserted or attached to the (root)stock of another plant
Grafting
What rosaceae are pomes?
Apple, pear (w/sclereids)
the ______ is the most common and culturally important fruit crop of temperate areas and perhaps one of the first fruit trees domesticated
Apple
The first record of grafting of apple cultivars is from ______ in about 300 BC.
Greece
True or False: Currently, all the cultivars of apples must be grafted
True
What is the symbol of love. fertility and prosperity?
Apple
What rosaceae is a drupe?
Cherry, plum, apricot, peach
Where were cherries domesticated?
Europe, Turkey, NE Africa and W Asia.
Where were plums first domesticated?
Europe
Where were apricots domesticated?
CHina
_____ is probably the first fruit crop domesticated in China about 4000 years ago.
Peach
When and where were almonds domesticated?
5000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean region
