EEMB 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bromeliaceae, Moniliophthora Perniciosa, Pineapple
8 Feb 2018
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Eemb 127 questions + study guide + lecture. Plant blindness is known as the affliction combated by education and plant observations. Example: pineapple (bromeliaceae: at an earlier stage of development, the pineapple is a stem surrounded by tightly packed flowers that are arranged in a spiral formation then each flower develops into a fruit. As the multiple fruits well up and fuse it creates what we think of as a single pineapple fruit": the pineapple we eat is a result of selective breeding! Phenology is the study of seasonal biological events such as the timing of flowering in the spring. Chocolate tree (theobroma cacao: up to 30% of the world"s production is lost through fungal diseases such as, black pod (phytophora spp, witches broom (crinipellis perniciosa *this one causes up to 90% loss of yield).
