- Industry: Agriculture
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A breeding technique that aims at incorporating different resistance gene(s) into similar improved varietal backgrounds and releasing them sequentially, enabling farmers to choose the variety on the basis of biotype/race identified. As the biotype/pathogen population shifts and the variety becomes susceptible, a new variety with a different gene is released.
Industry:Agriculture
The plant's growing period when it is most affected by the prevailing environmental factors such as daylength and disease or insect attack.
Industry:Agriculture
A root that develops from the radicle. Sparsely branched roots that replace the radicle and are later replaced by secondary adventitious roots.
Industry:Agriculture
Pollination between the pollen and stigma within the same flower of the same plant.
Industry:Agriculture
The genetic or physiological reason that fruit cannot be formed by selfing (fertilization).
Industry:Agriculture
A pesticide that kills a certain pest or group of pests and causes little or no injury to others.
Industry:Agriculture
