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International Rice Research Institute
Отрасли: Agriculture
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Feeding on or utilizing many kinds of food or parasitizing a number of different hosts; specifically feeding on various plants or animals.
Industry:Agriculture
The occurrence together in the same breeding population of two or more distinct forms at frequencies too great to be explained by recurrent mutation. Occurrence of two or more types of variants.
Industry:Agriculture
The stopping, interrupting, and temporary holding of precipitation in any form by a vegetative canopy or vegetation residue.
Industry:Agriculture
Tillage operations which when placed in a time frame of reference based on the date of crop planting occur before (after) the crop is planted.
Industry:Agriculture
Reduced to small particles by beating or striking heavily and repeatedly.
Industry:Agriculture
The potential energy of a unit quantity of water produced by the interaction of the water with such forces as capillary (matric), ion hydration (osmotic), and gravity, expressed relative to an arbitrarily selected reference potential. In practical application, potentials are used to predict the direction and rate of water flow through soils, or between the soil and some other system, such as plants or the outer atmosphere.
Industry:Agriculture
The capacity of the soil to supply potassium to growing plants in both the exchangeable and the moderately available forms.
Industry:Agriculture
A reactive alkali metal element essential for plant growth and proper development.
Industry:Agriculture
Experimental approach used to locate and isolate gene sequences for which the gene product is not known. Instead the phenotype is mapped and large fragments are isolated in the region of informative molecular markers known to segregate closely with the gene of interest.
Industry:Agriculture
Said of rice kernels that have burst open due to exposure to heat.
Industry:Agriculture