Rice science

Rice science

Of or relating to the science of rice cultivation.

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erect growth habit

Agriculture; Rice science

A tendency of the plant to grow upright without spreading. The culms are erect and closely grouped. Erect growth is recessive to the spreading or procumbent habit.

equilibrium moisture content

Agriculture; Rice science

The condition wherein the moisture-retaining tendency of the grain is the same as the moisture-withdrawing tendency of the air.

epistasis

Agriculture; Rice science

Interaction between genes in which one gene suppresses the action of another gene located at a different locus.

epiphyte

Agriculture; Rice science

A plant attached usually to another plant solely for support; not a parasite.

epiphytotic

Agriculture; Rice science

An unarrested spread of plant disease, an old term which means epidemic.

The outer layer of cells. A layer of primary tissue in higher plants that is commonly one cell thick, often cutinized on its outer surface, and continuous in young plants except over the stomata. The ...