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International Rice Research Institute
Industria: Agriculture
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An ideal plant type used as a model for selective breeding to develop specific plant characteristics desired or required in particular ecosystems.
Industry:Agriculture
An assumption, supposition, or postulate drawn before all the facts have been discovered or investigated and adopted for the time being as a guide for further investigation. Something not yet proven or assumed to be true for the sake of testing its soundness or in order to bring out new evidence.
Industry:Agriculture
In a gene, one that is suppressed by a nonallelic dominant gene.
Industry:Agriculture
The tissue immediately beneath the epidermis of a plant especially when lignified, suberized, or otherwise modified to serve as a supporting and protecting layer.
Industry:Agriculture
The part of the stem of a seedling or embryo below the cotyledons.
Industry:Agriculture
One of the individual threads that make up the mycelium of a fungus; hyphae increase by lateral branching.
Industry:Agriculture
An abnormal increase in size of cells.
Industry:Agriculture
Extreme sensitivity.
Industry:Agriculture
The ability to readily take up and retain moisture.
Industry:Agriculture
The growing of plants in nutrient solutions with or without an inert medium to provide mechanical support.
Industry:Agriculture