Terms Related to Food Plants

• Edible Vaccines

  Vaccines or candidate vaccines derived from edible plants. Transgenic plants (PLANTS, TRANSGENIC) are used as recombinant protein production systems and the edible plant tissue functions ...

• Spices

  The dried seeds, bark, root, stems, buds, leaves, or fruit of aromatic plants used to season food.

• Tomatoes

  Plants, Lycopersicon esculentum, native to South America, widely cultivated for their edible, fleshy, usually red fruit and also the fruit itself. (From American Heritage Dictionary, ...

• Lettuce

  Any of the various plants of the genus Lactuca, especially L. sativa, cultivated for its edible leaves. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 2d ed)

• Spinach

  A widely cultivated plant, Spinacia oleracea, native to Asia, having succulent, edible leaves eaten as a vegetable. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 1982)

• Seed Leaves

  A part of the embryo in a seed plant. The number of cotyledons is an important feature in classifying plants. In seeds without an endosperm, ...

• Oats

  A grass of the genus Avena, especially A. sativa, widely cultivated for its edible seeds and also the seeds of the oat, used as food ...