The first year the carrot produces the carrot itself and green leaves at its top. If the carrot is allowed to stay in the ground another year it will flower and produce seeds. So in carrots sexual reproduction is the same as it would be with any other flowering plant. Pollen is made and transferred to the female part of the flower known as the stigma.
Then the pollen grain delivers sperm cells within it to the ovary through a long tube and it's there that fertilization takes place. The seeds of the carrot plants are very small and a single teaspoon holds nearly Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
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Carrots are essentially self-reproducing. After the summer and fall are past and the weather goes cold, any carrot remaining in the ground will begin the process of bolting, or going to flower, and then seed. This is the beginning of the reproductive life of your carrot plant. As the winter weather wears on, the greens of your plant will die and fall off; this is not detrimental to the carrot. At this point, the plant is storing large quantities of sugar in its root to survive the winter.
When spring arrives, your carrot plant will begin to awaken. The flowers will be gathered into bunches called an umbels that are described in the anatomy section. Each flower within the umbel has the capacity to produce two seeds. In order to produce a seed the plant must be pollinated. The flowers of the carrot plant can be either self or cross pollinated. Cross pollination can occur between individuals of the same species or even between different carrot species.
Pollen is produced by the male portion of the plant.
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