Midterm Flashcards
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Forages
Aboveground portion of plant
Shoot
Below ground portion of plant that absorbs nutrients
Root
Individual shoots of grasses
Tillers
Basal portion of plant shoots (stem bases)
Crown
Aboveground portion where new tillers/shoots come from
Stolon
Below ground stem where new tillers/shoots come from
Rhizome
Emergence of seedling
Germination stage
Stage of growth primarily with leaf tissue
Vegetative stage
Bloom of floral buds
Reproductive stage
Formation of mature seed
Seed development stage
H20 into seed, temporary root formed, form coleoptile, grows into plumule, seminal root system
Germination of grasses
Hypocotyl underground
Hypogeal germination
Hypocotyl aboveground
Epigeal germination
Deeper roots without a tap root
Festucoid development
Tap root closer to the surface
Panicoid development
Cells shorten vertically and pulls plant into soil
Contractile growth (legumes)
Grass with 3-5 phytomers?
Cool season
Grass with 3-9 phytomers?
Warm season
Signals the transition to vegetative to reproductive tillers
- cold period
- longer warmer day
Vernalization
Light process that takes CO2 into carbs
Solar–>Chemical
Photosynthesis
Conversion of carbs into CO2 and energy
Chemical–>Biological
Respiration
Reaction responsible for turning solar energy into NADH and ATP?
Light
Reaction that fixates CO2 and used ATP and NADH from light reaction?
Calvin (Dark)
Capture the solar energy
Thylakoid membranes
Where the conversion of solar to chemical energy happens?
Stroma
Calvin Cycle 3 steps?
- Carboxylation (RUBISCO binds CO2)
- Reduction(3-PG gots to 2GAP)
- Regeneration(GAP makes more RUBISCO) (or goes to make glucose)
Cool season photosynthesis
C3
Warm season photosynthesis with CO2 pump
C4
CO2 goes into mesophyl cells, where dark reaction happens to make sucrose, sucrose transported to phloem
C3 photosynthesis
Photosynthesis with less mesophyl cells and less choloroplast, and bigger bundle sheath cells?
C4
CO2 into mesophyl cells, CO2 makes PEP which makes malate, malate goes to bundle sheath cells, malate makes CO2 and pyruvate, pyruvate makes more malate and the cycle continues, once high CO2 concentration dark reaction creates sucrose, sucrose goes to phloem
C4 photosynthesis
Enzyme that can fix both CO2 and O2?
RUBISCO
Photorespiration
One GAP is produced instead of 2 so plant has to choose glucose or RUBISCO generation
Carbohydrates from photosynthesis are transported as_______through_______tissue of the plant
sucrose, vascular
Vascular tissue with bi-directional movement of sucrose and organic nutrients
Phloem
Vascular tissue with upward movement of water and minerals
Xylem
Sucrose moves in the_____from____to_____
phloem, source, sink
Tissues that produce or store nutrients in excess of what they need
Source
Tissues not capable of producing nutrients to meet their own needs
Sink
Water moves through the plant via?
Transpiration
Transpiration steps?
- water enters through roots
- water moves through Xylem
- water evaporates from leaves
- evaporation pulls more water up through the plant
What plants store carbohydrates for survival when photosynthesis is inhibited or reduced?
Perennial Plant
Plant that lives for more than 2 years?
Perennial
Plant that goes dormant over the cold months and takes 2 years to go through its life cycle
Biennial