The maize plant depicts the monoecious condition. It implies that the plant has both the male flowers (staminate) and female flowers (pistillate). So, the plant becomes bisexual. However, the flowers are unisexual or imperfect. They do not have both the male and female reproductive whorls present with the single flower.

2007年3月3日 · Maize is a monoecious plant that produces male flowers on a terminal tassel (Fig. 1A) and female flowers on lateral ears (Fig. 1B), which arise in the axils of vegetative leaves. The tassel initiates several long, indeterminate branches at the base while the ear consists of a single spike with no long branches.

2023年1月11日 · Maize plants are monoecious, meaning that flowers are unisexual (male or female), but both male (staminate, or pollen-producing) and female (pistillate, or ovule-producing) flowers grow on the same plant. Male (staminate) structures. The male flowers are grouped in an inflorescence called a tassel at the tip of the stem. Maize tassels consist ...

2016年10月26日 · In teosinte, each of the lateral branches and the central stalk terminate in a cluster of male flowers; female flowers are produced at the nodes along the lateral branches. In maize, male flowers are borne at the top of the central stalk, and lateral branches are replaced by short stems that terminate in female flowers.

The maize plant depicts the monoecious condition. It implies that the plant has both the male flowers (staminate) and female flowers (pistillate). So, the plant becomes bisexual. However, the flowers are unisexual or imperfect. They do not have both the male and female reproductive whorls present with the single flower.

In maize, the flowers are unisexual but on the same plant. Maize is a monoecious plant. This means it has both male flowers which are staminate and female flowers called pistillate in it.

Flowers are wind-pollinated. Small dusty pollen grains are easily caught by the feathery stigma of the carpel. Fertilization takes place by normal process. Fruit is a caryopsis with a single closely fitted seed where fruit wall and seed-coat are inseparably united.

The distinguishing feature of maize is the separation of the sexes among its flowering structures. i.e a monoecious plant. Maize produces male inflorescences (tassels) which crown the plant at the stem apex, and female inflorescences (cobs or ears), which are borne at the apex of condensed, lateral branches protruding from leaf axils.

A flower containing either stamens (male part) or pistils (female part) is called unisexual flower. These are of two types namely staminate (male reproductive part) which bear the stamens and pistillate bearing pistils (female reproductive part). Some plants like maize are monoecious which have both male and female flowers on the same plant.

1994年12月2日 · Maize partitions the sexes into different flowers on the plant, a condition called monoecy, which facilitates outcrossing. Sex determination in maize is a complex process involving an interplay between genetic determinants, the environment, and hormones.