- Industry: Agriculture
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The elimination of a portion of a population of microorganisms, usually by treatment with heat or chemicals.
Industry:Agriculture
A pollinator variety used to pollinate a male sterile line to produce Fl male fertile progenies which produce partial seed set upon selfing.
Industry:Agriculture
An incomplete resistance in the plant type that has some ability to grow when attacked by disease or pests.
Industry:Agriculture
The average productivity of a single factor, measured by grain output divided by the quantity of the factor applied. This measure is sometimes referred to as input use efficiency.
Industry:Agriculture
A tissue of higher plants consisting of thin-walled living cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature. These cells are agents of photosynthesis and storage and make up much of the substance of leaves and roots and the pulp of fruits as well as parts of stems and supporting structures.
Industry:Agriculture
Rough rice soaked overnight or longer in water at ambient temperature, followed by boiling or steaming the steeped rice at 100 ° to gelatinize the starch. The rice is then cooled and dried before storage or milling. In this way part of the vitamins and minerals of the bran permeate the endosperm and are thus retained in the polished rice.
Industry:Agriculture
A relationship wherein an organism of one kind lives in, on, or in intimate association with an organism of another kind at the expense of which it obtains food and usually other benefits, causing some degree of overt damage but not usually killing directly and immediately.
Industry:Agriculture
An organism living in or on another living organism, obtaining from it part or all of its organic nutrients, and commonly exhibiting some degree of adaptive structural modification.
Industry:Agriculture
