upload
International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
Number of terms: 29629
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
The use of agronomic practices such as soil tillage, varying planting time, fertility level, sanitation, water management, crop diversification, crop rotation, and short-duration cultivars to reduce pest populations or stresses.
Industry:Agriculture
Length of the rice stem from the base of the plant to the base of the panicle or neck node.
Industry:Agriculture
A plant species known only in cultivation with its origin from domestication; for example, O. sativa and O. glaberrima.
Industry:Agriculture
Across, from side to side, when plowing in a field.
Industry:Agriculture
The stem of a grass or sedge. The round smooth-surfaced, ascending axis of the shoot, consisting of hollow internodes joined by solid nodes.
Industry:Agriculture
The fertilization of egg nuclei (ovules) of one plant by the pollen from another plant.
Industry:Agriculture
Genetic recombination during meiosis resulting in the exchange of (usually) equivalent segments between homologous chromosomes.
Industry:Agriculture
An identification and numbering system used to name and number the different crosses produced by researchers everywhere.
Industry:Agriculture
The transfer of pollen from the flowers (florets) of one plant to the stigma of another plant. It may or may not lead to fertilization.
Industry:Agriculture
The phenomenon in which a plant tissue infected with one strain of a virus is protected from infection by other strains of the same virus.
Industry:Agriculture