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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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The upper surface of ground water and the level below it where the soil is saturated with water.
Industry:Agriculture
To control the amount and depth of water in the ricefield during the required time necessary for crop growth.
Industry:Agriculture
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A small, blunt-tipped, rounded outgrowth.
Industry:Agriculture
A plant that is growing from an unintentionally included seed, a seed that is shed or dropped by a previous crop. Also called a rogue.
Industry:Agriculture
A submicroscopic infectious agent consisting of particles made up of DNA or RNA which are usually covered by protein and reproduce only in living cells; cannot be separated by filters.
Industry:Agriculture
A term used to describe a virus-carrying insect. It denotes an insect that has been given access to a virus source.
Industry:Agriculture
A gene in pest which is able to break down the gene for pest resistance in the plant and thus allows the pest to use the plant as a host.
Industry:Agriculture
Capacity of a pathogen or insect to incite a disease or injury to the host. Degree or measure of pathogenicity.
Industry:Agriculture
Strongly pathogenic.
Industry:Agriculture
Small, low-molecular weight ribonucleic acid that can infect plant cells, replicate themselves, and cause disease.
Industry:Agriculture