- Industry: Agriculture
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rough rice, paddy, padi, caryopsis, seed). 1). A fruit in which the pericarp is fused with the seed. 2). The ripened ovary and its associated structures such as the lemma, palea, rachilla, sterile lemmas, and the awn if present.
Industry:Agriculture
To separate milled grain according to size and quality--whole grain, broken grain, short grain, or long grain.
Industry:Agriculture
A measure of how well observed data conform to a specified, expected, or theoretical probability distribution.
Industry:Agriculture
Any of a large class of natural or synthetic compounds such as anthocyanin that are acetal derivatives of sugars and that on hydrolysis yield one or more molecules of a sugar, often a noncarbohydrate.
Industry:Agriculture
Nonhalophytic plants or plants that do not grow well when the osmotic pressure of the soil solution rises above two bars.
Industry:Agriculture
Refers to waxy rice with only 0-2% amylose or mainly amylopectin in its endosperm and pollen starch. Raw glutinous endosperm is opaque and becomes moist, sticky, and glossy when cooked.
Industry:Agriculture
Synonymous with grain discoloration. Rice grains maybe infected with various organisms causing discoloration ranging from black dots to brown or blackish blotches which may cover the entire glume.
Industry:Agriculture
The two chaffy structures in the inflorescence of grasses. It is made up of the lemma and palea which usually cover the floret before blooming and often remain attached to the ripened "fruit" or grain of some cereals, such as rice.
Industry:Agriculture
Leaf blades have a glossy surface to which water easily adheres in large droplets.
Industry:Agriculture
