Crops in Agriculture

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Crops in Agriculture

• Corrin Breeding
• Plant and Soil
• Computers in Agriculture

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Topic Slide

• Alfalfa
• Beans
• Spinach
• Squash
• Turnip Green
• Radish
• Cauliflower
• Broccoli
• Onion
• Collard Greens

• Sugar Cane
• Maize
• Wheat
• Rice
• Potatoes
• Sugar Beet
• Soybean
• Oil Plam Fruit
• Barley
• Tomato

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Sugar Cane

• Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of
  6 to 37 species of tall grasses. They have stout,
  jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar
  and measure 2 to 6 meters tall.

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Maize

• Maize (Zea mays also known as corn) is a cereal
  grain that was domesticated in Mesoamerica and
  then spread throughout the American continents.

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Wheat

• Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a grass that is
  cultivated worldwide. Globally, it is the most
  important human food grain and ranks second in
  total production as a cereal crop behind maize.

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Rice

• Rice is two species in the Poaceae ("true grass")
  family, Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima. These
  plants are native to tropical and subtropical
  southern and southeastern Asia and in Africa.
  Rice provides more than one fifth of the calories
  consumed by humans in their global diets

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Potatoes

• The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial
  plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family,
  commonly grown for its starchy tuber. Potatoes
  are the world's most widely grown tuber crop, and
  the fourth largest food crop in terms of fresh
  produce

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Sugar Beet

• Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), a member of the
  Chenopodiaceae family, is a plant whose root
  contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is
  grown commercially for sugar.

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Soybean

• The soybean (U.S.) or soya bean (UK) (Glycine
  max) is a species of legume native to Eastern
  Asia. It is an annual plant that may vary in
  growth, habit, and height.

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Oil Palm Fruit

• The oil palms (Elaeis) comprise two species of
  the Arecaceae, or palm family. They are used in
  commercial agriculture in the production of palm
  oil.

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Barley

• Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is a cereal grain, which
  serves as a major animal feed crop, with smaller
  amounts used for malting and in health food.

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Tomato

• The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in
  the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to
  Central, South, and southern North America from
  Mexico to Peru.

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Alfalfa

• Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), also known as Lucerne,
  Purple Medic and Trefoil (Arabic), is a perennial
  flowering plant cultivated as an important forage
  crop.
• Alfalfa is one of the most important legumes
  used in agriculture. The US is the largest
  alfalfa producer in the world, but alfalfa is
  important in Europe, Australia, South America,
  South Africa, China and the Middle East.

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Beans

• Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of
  several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae)
  used for food or feed. Due to the fact that there
  are so many cultivars of beans, they can be found
  all over the world.

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Spinach

• Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant
  in the family Amaranthaceae, native to central
  and southwestern Asia.

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Squash

• Squashes are four species native to North America
  of the genus Cucurbita, also called pumpkins and
  marrows depending on variety or the nationality
  of the speaker.

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Turnip Green

• The turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) is a root
  vegetable commonly grown in temperate climates
  worldwide for its white, bulbous taproot.

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Radish

• The radish (Raphanus sativus) is an edible root
  vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that is
  domesticated and consumed throughout the world.

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Cauliflower

• Cauliflower is a variety (Botrytis Group) of
  Brassica oleracea in the family Brassicaceae (the
  same species as broccoli, which it strongly
  resembles). It is mainly grown in California.

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Broccoli

• Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family,
  Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae) It in grown in
  the United States.

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Onion

• Many plants in the genus Allium are known by the
  common name onion. It is grown all around the
  world.

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Collard Greens

• Collards, also called collard greens or borekale
  (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), are various
  loose-leafed cultivars of the cabbage plant. The
  plant is grown for its large, dark-colored,
  edible leaves and as a garden ornamental, mainly
  in Brazil, Portugal, the Southern United States,
  many parts of Africa, Montenegro, Spain and in
  Kashmir as well.