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Crop Sciences

College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

What is a Crop?: Plant Form, Function, and Structure-I
CPSC 112: Introduction to Crop Sciences

Recommended reading:
Ch. 7 and Ch. 8, Lab Exercise 2, Introductory Crop Science, R. Waldren
Ch. 2, pp. 59-64 and 69-81, Principles of Crop Production, G. Acquaah

Images

Types of Cells

Cell Parts

  • Cell wall (Picture from Plant Biology, Rost et. al., Wadsworth Publishing, 1998)
  • Protoplast (banana) (Picture source unknown)
  • Plasma membrane (Picture from Introductory Plant Biology (7th ed), Stern., Wm C. Brown Publishing, 1997)
  • Plasmodesmata (Picture source unknown)
  • Nucleus (Picture from Plants and Society (2nd ed), Levetin and McMahon., McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1999)
  • Chloroplast (Picture from Introductory Plant Biology (7th ed), Stern., Wm C. Brown Publishing, 1997)
  • Mitochondria (Picture from Plant Biology, Rost et. al., Wadsworth Publishing, 1998)
  • Vacuole (marked in green) (Picture from Plant Biology, Rost et. al., Wadsworth Publishing, 1998)

Meristems

  • Meristem (Picture from Introductory Plant Biology (7th ed) Stern., Wm C. Brown Publishing, 1997)
  • Apical/subapical ( Picture from Plant Biology, Rost et. al., Wadsworth Publishing, 1998)

Links of Interest about Crops (Form and Function-Cells, Meristems, Tissues)

Cells

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