Does mustard ,pea and lotus belong to mesophytes?

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Does mustard ,pea and lotus belong to mesophytes?
The question is grammatically incorrect.



It should have been " Do mustard, pea and lotus belong to mesophytes?"



Now the answer.



Out of the three plants that you have mentioned ; the first two, mustard and pea are certainly mesophytes.



In fact, almost all crop plants are mesophytes.( Rice is an exception.)



The last plant , lotus, is NOT a mesophyte ( Here I assume that by lotus you mean the water lily, or Nymphaea or Nelumbo or 'Kamal' in vernacular language.)



Lotus is a Hydrophyte , and to be more exact, it is a floating hydrophyte.



It grows in water and the leaves are floating on the water surface.



I hope that you know the ecological characters of these groups ( Mesophytes, Hydrophytes.)



Kindly click on the following links to know more.



1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesophyte



2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophyte



3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelumbo_nuc...



4)http://www.bergen.cc.nj.us/faculty/rdill...



5)http://www.luskiewnik.gower.pl/nelumbo.j...
Reply:yes.

Mesophytes are terrestrial plants which are adapted to neither a particularly dry nor particularly wet environment.



Plants that have an adequate water supply. Such plants have some xeromorphic features in order that they should conserve enough water such as a cuticle, stomata with regulable diameter, and a greater number of stomata on the undersides of leaves, but lack others, meaning they do not retain too much water. Because of their lack of particular adaptation, when they are exposed to extreme conditions they do not survive well. For example, in hot weather they may overheat and suffer from temperature stress. They have no specific adaptations to overcome this, but, if there is enough water in the soil to allow this, they can increase their rate of transpiration by opening their stomata, thus meaning some heat is removed by the exiting water. In dry weather they may suffer from water stress (losing more water via transpiration than can be gained from the soil). Again they have no specific adaptations to overcome this, and can only respond by closing their stomata to prevent further dehydration. Their cells are thus likely to lose turgidity. This may cause the plants cells to become plasmolysed. prompting wilting. Wilting does actually have some benefits as it reduces the leaf surface area exposed to the atmosphere, meaning it reduces transpiration, and that exposed to solar radiation, meaning temperature stress is reduced. Although mesophytes often recover from such wilting, prolonged periods of it can lead to permanent wilting or cell plasmolysis and subsequently death.