Sugar Beet

Sugar Beet
Scientific Name: Beta vulgaris

Bangla/local name: Not known

Taxonomic Position According to Cronquist (1981)

 Botanical Description of Sugar Beet

Habit:Biennial herb

Root:The taproot is diarch, swollen together with the hypocotyls, forming a tuber.

Leaf: The leaves are glabrous, ovate to cordate, light to dark green or reddish with prominent mid-ribs and strong petiols,

Flower: Flowers can occur in clusters and cohere so that a hard particle is produced.

Inflorescence:The plant has a single flower eat each node of the inflorescence.

Flower: Sessile, bisexual.

Perianth:  Tepal 5

Androecium: Stamen 5, perigynous

Gynoecium: Ovary monocarpellary

Fruit: nut

Fig. Sugar Beet Seeds

 Table 1. Sugar beet variety released by BSRI, Ishurdi, Pabna, Bangladesh