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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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An international system of classifying responses of rice to biological, chemical, and physical stresses, developed through cooperative efforts of rice scientists and published by IRRI in a booklet.
Industry:Agriculture
The measure of the average chance departure of a statistic from its expected value. It is sometimes known as the standard deviation of the means. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic.
Industry:Agriculture
The measure of variability given in mathematical terms of how much an observation differs from the mean set of observations. The positive square root of the average squared deviations of the observations from the mean.
Industry:Agriculture
A rice variety or breeding line whose response to a treatment is known and which is repeatedly included in tests as basis for comparing the reactions of tests entries. A resistant and a susceptible check are usually included.
Industry:Agriculture
A group of plants or trees growing together in a given area.
Industry:Agriculture
The discolored grain usually due to fungal disease or infection.
Industry:Agriculture
Planting different fields in a community or on a farm over a period of several weeks, in contrast with simultaneous planting wherein all fields are planted over a period of a week or less.
Industry:Agriculture
The four phases of a flower's development--floral initiation, floral organization, floral maturation, and anthesis.
Industry:Agriculture
Gene transfer that leads to the integration of introduced sequences into the chromosomes of the recipient plant and remains stable.
Industry:Agriculture
A resistance that is stable across time and space.
Industry:Agriculture