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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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The plant which is the source of pollen used in hybridization.
Industry:Agriculture
A flower with functional stamens but no ovary.
Industry:Agriculture
Unwanted organisms, such as insects, pathogens, weeds, small animals, etc. that compete with people for food and shelter, threaten their health, comfort, and welfare and cause serious problems.
Industry:Agriculture
Resistance in which genes show clear-cut and discrete segregation in the F2 or later generations of crosses between resistant and susceptible parents. Effects are thus qualitative.
Industry:Agriculture
A gene that determines major characteristics.
Industry:Agriculture
Application of fertilizer materials in amounts and at intervals to ensure a certain minimum level of an available nutrient.
Industry:Agriculture
A pollinator variety used to pollinate the male sterile line and produce progenies which still retain male sterility. If there is no maintainer line, the male sterile line cannot be maintained and multiplied generation after generation.
Industry:Agriculture
Larval stage of the order Diptera (fly).
Industry:Agriculture
Large plants, as opposed to microphytes such as algae and fungi.
Industry:Agriculture
A nutrient element absorbed by the plant in large amounts, often more than 0.1 % of its dry weight. The following are considered macroelements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur.
Industry:Agriculture