Question

The stems of grasses, and rice, remain weak and thin, why?

Answer 1

Because the lateral meristem is very thin in them

Answer 2

Answer:

Grass and rice plants comes under the category monocots.

The main reason for distance of grasses and rise to remain weekend are they lack upbulk structure of lateral meristems.

Letter meristems are the types of meristems which are responsible for the the width wise growth of a plant.

The number of presence of meristematic cells decides the structure of the plant.

Number of lateral meristematic cells are present in grass and rice plants they have very weak and thin stem.