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Crop Plants: Why You Should Never Go Hungry

Crop Plants: Why You Should Never Go Hungry. In The Beginning…. Life for humans was very different: No permanent settlements No real specialization Hunt or Gather Less stable food supplies Then, came mankind's greatest invention… AGRICULUTURE! Why so fly (cool)?

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Crop Plants: Why You Should Never Go Hungry

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  1. Crop Plants:Why You Should Never Go Hungry

  2. In The Beginning… • Life for humans was very different: • No permanent settlements • No real specialization • Hunt or Gather • Less stable food supplies • Then, came mankind's greatest invention… • AGRICULUTURE! • Why so fly (cool)? • More food/ better control on supply • Permanentsettlements • More free time to develop ideas • Specialized roles in society

  3. Dominating the Market • Foods to feed the world… • What characteristics do they have? • Easy to grow/grow fast • Lots of energy inside/carbs • Stay cheap • Crop Plants: 1) Cereal Crops grasses • Rice common food • Wheat bread • Barley bread and beer • Sorghum and millet 2) Stems • Yams, taro, and potatoes 3) Some fruits • Dates and bananas

  4. The Good and The Bad of Crops • What are the healthy benefits of crops? • Carbohydrate heavy • Protein (not as much as meat) • Rich in Vitamin B • Lots of Ca2+and Fe • Source of fiber to help peristalsis • What is lacking from crops? • Proteins lacklysine (essential Amino Acid) • Little Vitamin A, C, or D • How do we fix this? • Eat balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, meats, and dairy • Modify genes of crop plants • Golden Rice vitamin A

  5. Ancient Agricultural Secret • How long have “GM” foods been around? • Since agriculture was created • Farmers have always tried mixing the best of each crop to make best looking/tasting products • What term is used for this process? • Cross pollination “outbreeding” through genetically varied individuals • Genetic diversity = better chance of adapting • Why are plants so easy to cross-breed? • Additional chromosomes rarely destabilize zygote ; polyploidy • Hybrid vigor

  6. Pollination • What are males gametes in plants? Where are they? • Pollen grains on anthers • What are the females gametes in plants? Where are they? • Ovule inside the stigma • Pollination mixing of pollen grains with stigma to cause fertilization • What are the different methods of pollination? • Wind pollen designed to be carried by breeze • Pollinators pollen carried by birds, insects, etc…

  7. Fertilization • Pollen lands on stigma and chemical signals cause pollen tube to grow down style to the ovary • Pollen tube reaches the ovule and deposits 2 male gametes; Inside ovary are 6 haploid cells and 1 diploid nucleus • 1 male gamete fuses with 1 female gamete; this becomes the zygote (2n) • Second male gamete fuses with diploid endosperm nucleus; this becomes a 3n endosperm (food source for seed)

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