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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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The inability to perceive that different gender roles and responsibilities are held by men and women, leading to different effects on men and women of development policies, programs, and projects.
Industry:Agriculture
Degree of rice gel firmness measured as the length of cold milled rice gelatinized in 2 ml of dilute potassium hydroxide in a 13- x 100-mm test tube, placed horizontally for 30 minutes or 1 hour. Gel consistency may be classified as hard (27 to 40 mm), medium (41 to 60 mm), or soft (61 to 100 mm). It is correlated with hardness of cooked rice.
Industry:Agriculture
In this system, the sterility/fertility reaction is imparted to the pollen by the genetic constitution of the pollen itself and is controlled by a single gene which may have large numbers of allelic forms.
Industry:Agriculture
Having n number of chromosomes (haploid) in contrast to zygotic tissue with 2n (diploid).
Industry:Agriculture
Organic or inorganic chemicals used for killing the functional sexual parts (pollen, ovule) of the plant. These may be selective for male or female parts.
Industry:Agriculture
An abnormal plant growth, swelling or tumor induced by another organism such as an insect.
Industry:Agriculture
1). An organism with no chlorophyll, reproducing by sexual or asexual spores, usually having mycelia with well-marked nuclei. 2). Heterotrophic microorganisms chiefly saprophytic or parasitic, that constitute the kingdom fungi.
Industry:Agriculture
A trench or long narrow cut in the soil after a plow passes through it, a trench or ditch dug by hand.
Industry:Agriculture
The ribbon of soil cut, lifted, pulverized, thrown, or turned to one side by the plow bottom.
Industry:Agriculture
Union of two broken fragments.
Industry:Agriculture