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The absorption by plants of nutrients in excess of their need for growth.
Industry:Agriculture
Said of seedlings that are normally green at first, but in which the chlorophyll gradually disappears and the plant ultimately dies.
Industry:Agriculture
Terms commonly used in connection with rice culture to denote flooded (paddy) vs unflooded conditions.
Industry:Agriculture
Rice grown on fields where water is held by bunds. About 30% of the world's rice is grown as rainfed lowland; about 45% as irrigated lowland. Some areas are flooded lowlands.
Industry:Agriculture
A land area surrounded with dikes or levees to impound rain or irrigated water. An irrigated field surrounded by levees.
Industry:Agriculture
To break up, to not be compacted. Decreasing soil bulk density and increasing porosity due to the application of mechanical forces to the soil.
Industry:Agriculture
Long-term storage for maintenance of viability and purity of germplasm for up to 25 years for annual crops.
Industry:Agriculture
