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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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Organelle found in all eukaryotes. Site of respiration (ATP synthesis). Contains its own DNA.
Industry:Agriculture
Small arachnid of the order Acarina.
Industry:Agriculture
An enclosure containing a device that produces a fine mist of water on plants, facilitating the hatching of gall midge eggs and the movement of first-instar larvae.
Industry:Agriculture
Genes which individually produce very little effect, but may produce marked effect in combination.
Industry:Agriculture
The least amount possible of cultivation or soil disturbance done to prepare a suitable seedbed. The main purposes of minimum tillage are to reduce tillage energy consumption, to conserve moisture, and to retain plant cover to minimize erosion.
Industry:Agriculture
Solid particles other than organic matter which act as major components of soils and sources of nutrient elements.
Industry:Agriculture
The conversion of an element from an organic form to an inorganic state as a result of microbial decomposition.
Industry:Agriculture
The process of separating the hull or husk and bran from the paddy or rough rice into milled rice and bran-and-chaff.
Industry:Agriculture
Stage in the ripening phase of rice growth and development when the contents of the caryopsis (starch portion of the grain) is at first watery, but later turns milky in consistency.
Industry:Agriculture
Moving from one country, place, or locality to another.
Industry:Agriculture