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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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1). Pertaining to soils flooded for at least several weeks each year, or to crops growing in such soils. 2). Land of which the rooting zone can be kept saturated for a substantial part of the growing season, where necessary, by encouraging accumulation of water on the soil through puddling and the use of bunds or levees.
Industry:Agriculture
A term used for chemicals that control weeds.
Industry:Agriculture
Removing unwanted plants by hand from a crop, or tillage action which lightly cultivates the soil for the purpose of destroying the weeds.
Industry:Agriculture
The adult form of a certain coleopterous species.
Industry:Agriculture
Said of muddy, very wet ricefield ready for sowing.
Industry:Agriculture
Also called western blotting. Method to detect protein by use of an antibody directed against it.
Industry:Agriculture
Milled rice with negligible or no amylose in the grain.
Industry:Agriculture
Glutinous or waxy type of starchy endosperm, in which the starch fraction is composed of nearly 100 % amylopectin, 0-2% amylose, stains reddish brown with weak potassium iodide-iodine solution.
Industry:Agriculture
Any unwanted plant that is injurious to the crop.
Industry:Agriculture
Prevention or eradication of weeds by physical removal (hand weeding) or limiting their growth by mechanical or chemical means.
Industry:Agriculture