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International Rice Research Institute
行业: Agriculture
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The unconsolidated mineral matter on the surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for growth of land plants. This has been subjected to and influenced by genetic environmental factors of parent material, climate (including moisture and temperature), macro- and microorganisms, and topography, all acting over a period of time and producing a product--soil--that differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties.
Industry:Agriculture
To be completely covered by water for a determined length of time or until the object is saturated.
Industry:Agriculture
Fertilizer that releases the wanted element at a slow rate. A term used interchangeably with delayed release, controlled release, controlled availability, slow acting, and metered release to designate a rate of dissolution (usually in water) much less than is obtained for completely water-soluble compounds.
Industry:Agriculture
Fertilizers that contain only one of the major fertilizer elements.
Industry:Agriculture
The land at the margin of a field on which the plow or other equipment may be turned.
Industry:Agriculture
The physical condition of the soil as related to its ease of tillage, fitness as a seedbed, and its impedance to seeding emergence and root penetration.
Industry:Agriculture
A common endomycorrhizal association produced by phycomycetous fungi of the genus Endogone. Host range includes many agricultural and horticultural crops.
Industry:Agriculture
Pertaining to a soil moisture regime where the soil is not dry for as long as 90 cumulative days (USDA, 1975).
Industry:Agriculture
An apparatus which changes temperatures according to precise programming. Usually used with PCR, RAPD, AP-PCR, and DAF.
Industry:Agriculture
The genic male sterile plant which responds to temperature for expression of its pollen sterility/fertility.
Industry:Agriculture
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