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Resource Manual on <strong>IPPM</strong> <strong>in</strong> Vegetable<br />

World Education Philipp<strong>in</strong>es, Inc.<br />

BULB is an underground stem, usually globular, that has fleshy leaves emerg<strong>in</strong>g from<br />

the top and roots emerg<strong>in</strong>g from the bottom. The fleshy leaves store food. Examples<br />

<strong>in</strong>clude the tulip, narcissus, and onion. Refer to Figure 4.<br />

BULBEL (also called a bulbet) is a small bulb that grows from<br />

another bulb. This is an example of vegetative propagation.<br />

CALYX is the sepal of a flower. Refer to Figure 2.<br />

CAPSULE<br />

A capsule is a seed pod that opens when it is dry and the seeds are<br />

mature.<br />

CARBON DIOXIDE CO 2 , is a molecule that has one carbon atom<br />

and two oxygen atoms; it is a gas at standard temperature and pressure.<br />

Plants use carbon dioxide gas <strong>in</strong> the photosynthetic process.<br />

Figure 4.<br />

CARNIVORES are animals that eat meat. They usually have sharp teeth and powerful<br />

jaws.<br />

CASPARIAN STRIP is waxy layer (a band of suber<strong>in</strong>, a waterproof<strong>in</strong>g<br />

material) that is located <strong>in</strong> the walls of plant root cells. This barrier strip stops<br />

the transport of water and m<strong>in</strong>erals <strong>in</strong>to the ma<strong>in</strong> vascular system of the root.<br />

CEREAL is a gra<strong>in</strong> that is used for human food. Some cereals <strong>in</strong>clude rice, oats, wheat,<br />

and barley.<br />

CERTIFIED SEED OR PLANTING STOCK are seeds, tubers or young plants<br />

certified by a recognized authority to be free of or to conta<strong>in</strong> less than a m<strong>in</strong>imum<br />

number of specified pests or pathogens.<br />

CHLOROPHYLL is a molecule that can use light energy from sunlight to turn water<br />

and carbon dioxide gas <strong>in</strong>to sugar and oxygen (this process is called photosynthesis).<br />

Chlorophyll is magnesium based and is usually green.<br />

COLEOPTILE is a protective sheath that surrounds the shoot tip and the embryonic<br />

leaves of the young shoot of grasses.<br />

COMPLETE FLOWER has a stamen, a pistil, petals, and sepals.<br />

COROLLA consists of the petals of a flower.<br />

COTYLEDON is the embryonic leaf with<strong>in</strong> a seed. When a seed germ<strong>in</strong>ates, the<br />

cotyledon is the first leaf to grow. Monocots have one cotyledon; dicots have two<br />

cotyledons.<br />

CROSS-POLLINATION is the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a<br />

flower on a different plant.

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