Let's Save Our Plant-Net

Hey everyone! This is Part Two of our awesome field trip. 
You see, after we visited the cows, we headed over to the food of the cows: the plants or the producers. 
Now, in our previous post, Plants Vs. Zombies....without the Zombies, we learned from T. Rye a lot about plant divisions and plant classes, and we had to make a report about it. 
In this post, "Let's Save Our Plant-net", we'll be seeing plants in action, photosynthesizing, absorbing nutrients, who knows. 

We are going to be talking about the second site of our field trip. The Institute Of Plant Breeding (IPB)! 

What did we expect? Well, of course, The Minigurus expected to learn more about plants. We wanted to see the plants that T. Rye was talking about. We wanted to see the structure and characteristics of the plants, and identify which division or class it belongs to. So Khaim took down notes on specific types of plants and voila. 

1)
     Name of Organism: Gabriela

    Scientific Name: Gabriela

    Taxonomic Classification: Division Angiospermophyta

    Characteristics: 

We found this plant interesting because it was the first hybrid plant we learned about. We also chose this since it looked beautiful and appealing.

   Ecological Relationship: 

Since this organism can make it's own food it is a producer.
An ecological relationship with other organisms is: competition, when it's planted among other Gabrielas and they compete for natural resources like sunlight. Another ecological relationship is that when pollination occurs, the Gabriela provides food to the pollinator, and the plant also reproduces through the pollinator.

2) Name of Organism: Corn
    Scientific Name: Zea Mays
    Taxonomic Classification: Divsion Angiospermophyta


    Characteristics:
We found it very interesting because we love corn. We picked this plant because we love eating corn, and we wanted to find out how the people at the IPB plant this delicious dicot.


   Ecological Relationship:
Since this organism makes it's own food it is a producer. And like the Gabriela, it competes with other corns for natural resources. In a predator-prey relationship, corn is the prey and the animals that feed on it are the predators, like field rats.

3) Name of Organism: Sweet Potato
    Scientific Name: Ipomoea batatas
    Taxonomic Classification: Division Angiospermophyta


    Characteristics: We found this interesting because they are resistant to insects, they taste good, and they are dicots. And, come on. Who doesn't like potatoes? You can make 'em into fries! Right, Mr. Potatohead?


    Ecological Relationship:
Since this organism makes it's own food it is a producer. Plus it provides food for the predators who eat them, so it's in a predator-prey relationship. Competition with other potatoes, like the previous plants, is another relationship.

4) Name of Organism: Tomato
    Scientific Name: Lycopersicom esculantum
    Taxonomic Classification: Division Angiospermophyta 


    Characteristics:
This plant is very interesting because they are plum shaped, they are tolerant to foliage diseases, and they are red orange when ripe. Tomatoes also taste really good.


    Ecological Relationship: 
Since this organism makes it's own food it is a producer. Like all other plants, it competes with other tomato plants nearby for resources. It's also prey to us predators who eat them.

We were expecting to learn a lot from this site. What we did learn is:

1. The institute aims to improve plants,

2. We learned about different types of food crops, 

3. We learned about the effects of nature (like drought) on these plants.

4. And we learned about the new way of planting crops and plants.

Well, we got a sudden craving for potato chips and ketchup and corn on the cob.

Thanks for reading, guys, and wait for our new posts that'll be sure to come soon! We'll be back......right after we eat.
Oh yeah, we'd like to thank Khaim for the pictures of the plants, and Reisa for the picture of Mr. Potatohead.
And in case you're the type of person who just can't wait to see the next post, here's a hint. 
M-U-S-E-U-M.