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A virus disease of rice transmitted by green leafhoppers (Nephotettix nigropictus, N. cincticeps, and N. virescens). The characteristic symptoms are yellowing of leaves, reduced tillering, and stunting. The disease is similar to tungro since it is transmitted by the same insect.
Industry:Agriculture
Expression of a transforming gene by recipient cells over a relatively brief time span; does not necessarily indicate integration of the gene into the plant chromosome.
Industry:Agriculture
A segregation pattern in which the segregants exceed the limits of the parents.
Industry:Agriculture
Descriptive of an organism that contains some genetic material that has been experimentally transferred into it from some other source.
Industry:Agriculture
The genetic modification induced by the incorporation of "foreign" DNA into a cell.
Industry:Agriculture
Transfer of genetic material from one bacteria to another by means of a bacteriophage.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Copying of a gene into RNA. Also, copying of a viral RNA into a cRNA. 2). The process by which DNA is copied into RNA. As the nucleic acid "language" stays the same (see genetic code), the process is called transcription.
Industry:Agriculture
A 5- to 10-cm thick compacted subsurface horizon between the 10- to 40-cm depths; common in paddies.
Industry:Agriculture
