Welcome to the rice reproduction home page! You can access to any of flower pages and grain pages from here.

FLOWER

GRAIN

How the rice flower are Inflorescence Page	What the grain consists of Internal Grain Anatomy Page
What each flower consists of Flower Anatomy Page	How grains ripe Fruit Ripening Page
How a flower develops Flower Development Page	How the fruits are arranged Fruit Arrangement Page
How the fertilization happens in rice plant  Fertilization page	How diverse rice grains are Fruit Variety Page

The reproduction of rice plant with its product, rice grains, is responsible for supporting the diet of more than half of the world's population.   Plants develop flower and seeds with or without fruit in their reproductive growth.  Reproductive growth is a one-time process, in other words, determinate. Flower and seed development is a process that is taking place at a growing point at the tip of stem, often called shoot apical meristem (SAM). A growing point goes through reproductive growth only once. On a rice plant, the growing point develop a panicle in the reprocduion.     

   

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© Thomas L. Rost 1997 Section of Plant Biology Division of Biological Sciences UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS