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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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A cell or organism that manufactures its own food from CO2 and other small inorganic compounds by the process of photosynthesis.
Industry:Agriculture
Fertilization arising from self-pollination.
Industry:Agriculture
Infection of a host by a microorganism or virus produced within or upon the body of the same host individual.
Industry:Agriculture
A polyploid which possesses duplication of the same set of chromosomes, or more than two sets of chromosomes, coming from same species.
Industry:Agriculture
The photographic record of a chromatogram that contains radioactively labeled compounds. Prepared by exposing a sensitive photographic film to the radioactive radiation by placing it in contact with the chromatogram.
Industry:Agriculture
A method used to detect radioactive substances by their property to darken film superimposed on the compounds. Can be used on whole organisms or molecules separated by molecular methods such as electrophoresis.
Industry:Agriculture
An airtight chamber that can be filled with steam under pressure or surrounded by another chamber for the steam and that is used for sterilizing, cooking or other purposes requiring moist temperatures above 212 oF or 100 oC. Used for sterilization.
Industry:Agriculture
1). A pair of small ear-like appendages borne at the base of the leaf blade and usually arising at the sides where the ligule and the base of the collar are joined. 2). An ear-shaped appendage, usually occurring at the junction of the leaf sheath and the blade that may not be present in older leaves.
Industry:Agriculture
A photoperiod-insensitive, rainfed, drought-prone, lowland, or upland rice, broadcast and transplanted during the early part of the wet season from March to September in Bangladesh and from April to August in east India.
Industry:Agriculture
1). To cause growth retardation or an economic yield loss from disease, insect, bird or other pests 2). To try to solve a problem at its source.
Industry:Agriculture