HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

FUNDAMENTALS OF HORTICULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Carrots are an example of which part of the plant?
A
roots
B
stem
C
flower
D
leaves
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Roots are the part of the plant mainly responsible for anchoring it down into the ground and absorbing the essential mineral elements, nutrients, and water from the soil, and used to store food. Carrots are roots, it’s a taproot . Carrots have root caps, no knots, and do not directly attach to leaves or flowers.

Detailed explanation-2: -∙ Carrot is an example of a root vegetable.

Detailed explanation-3: -The edible part of a carrot is a taproot. It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring and summer while building up the stout taproot, which stores large amounts of sugars for the plant to flower in the second year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mango, neem, carrot, radish possess tap root system where as rice, grass, maize, bamboo possess fibrous root system.

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