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To be completely covered by water for a determined length of time or until the object is saturated.
Industry:Agriculture
A disease caused by fungi of the order Ustilaginales; in rice smut, the grains turn into black masses of spores which can be disseminated by wind, rain, and contact.
Industry:Agriculture
Fertilizer that releases the wanted element at a slow rate. A term used interchangeably with delayed release, controlled release, controlled availability, slow acting, and metered release to designate a rate of dissolution (usually in water) much less than is obtained for completely water-soluble compounds.
Industry:Agriculture
In ecology, an area described or defined by its biotic, climatic, and soil conditions as related to its capacity to produce vegetation.
Industry:Agriculture
The portion of the uppermost internode of the culm below the panicle base which is curved and wavy; opposed to straight neck.
Industry:Agriculture
A method of breeding sometimes used in autogamous (self-fertilizing) species to ensure that the range of genotypes in the F2 population will also be present in the future generations. This method aims to maintain the broadest possible representation of genotypes in the base population until selection is practiced, and to retain genetic variation in advanced generation progenies.
Industry:Agriculture
A sequence of nucleotides that occurs only once in a genome.
Industry:Agriculture
Also called microsatellite. These are repeats of two or three nucleotides, sometimes found repeated up to 30 times. External PCR primers may detect length variation, which can be mapped.
Industry:Agriculture
