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What is wheat and what is the difference between wheat and rice?

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
2020-11-16 11:23:35
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1. What is wheat

Wheat is a general term for plants of the wheat family. It is an annual herb with a wide distribution.It is one of the three major cereals and has a very long history of cultivation.Almost the whole plant of wheat can be used as food, rich in starch, protein, fat and minerals, calcium, iron, thiamine and so on, high nutritional value.It generally grows in a deep soil environment, and has certain requirements for water and nutrients in the soil.It belongs to long-day crops, and it should be guaranteed to have eight to twelve hours of light every day.

2. What is the difference between rice and rice?

Plant difference: The stem of wheat is erect, clustered, with six to seven nodes, 60 to 100 centimeters in height and 5 to 7 millimeters in diameter.Its leaf sheaths loosely enclose the stem, the ligule is membranous, about a millimeter in length, and the leaves are long lanceolate.Rice stems are also erect, but the height is about 30 to 100 centimeters, the leaves are alternate in two rows, linear lanceolate.

Flower differences: Wheat inflorescences are erect spikes, about five to ten centimeters long and one to one and a half centimeters wide, with three to nine flowers in the spikelets.The panicle of rice is a conical inflorescence, which is loose, and its spikelet is oblong, flattened on both sides, containing three florets.

Fruit distinction: The fruit of wheat is a caryopsis, the pericarp is yellow-brown, the shape is oblate or oval, the two ends of the fruit are pointed or blunt, and there are starch grains inside.The powder of the fruit is white, mixed with small pieces of yellow-brown skin.The fruit of rice is a caryopsis, the lemma is boat-shaped, and there are short awns.

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