How Plants Grow

Plant Life Cycles

• Perennials : Life term undefined
• Annuals life cycle complete in one year                                                                                     
• Biennials take two years to complete their life cycle.

Lunaria annua

The Power of Seeds

Angiosperm: Chest Box

Gymnosperm: Naked Seed

Flowering plants

Seed often enclosed in fruit

Makes up the majority of the earth's agricultural crops

Seed unprotected by a fruit, usually exposed.

Conifers and Ginko trees are examples.

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Grain, sugar cane, bamboo, lilies

roses, beans, walnuts

Root Shoots and Stems

Food Systems!

In the process of germination:

• The embryo begins growth into a seedling.
• Apical meristems lead the pathway for root and stem growth
• Germination can only begin when temperature, water, air, seed coat treatments have been met*
• Germination is over when the seed leaves have emerged

Aeration

Oxygen is important in the delivery of food to growing plants via cellular respiration.

in compacted soil you risk suffocating the seed.