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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.
Industry:Agriculture
The condition wherein the moisture-retaining tendency of the grain is the same as the moisture-withdrawing tendency of the air.
Industry:Agriculture
Interaction between genes in which one gene suppresses the action of another gene located at a different locus.
Industry:Agriculture
A plant attached usually to another plant solely for support; not a parasite.
Industry:Agriculture
An unarrested spread of plant disease, an old term which means epidemic.
Industry:Agriculture
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 epidermis provides protection to the underlying parts against mechanical injury and desiccation and is largely replaced in older plants except on leaves and herbaceous stems.
Industry:Agriculture
An extensive development of a pest or disease in a geographical area or community, in a given time and space.
Industry:Agriculture
The part of the stem of a seedling or embryo just above the cotyledons.
Industry:Agriculture
Any of the numerous proteins or conjugated proteins produced by living organisms that function as biochemical catalysts within the organism's body. Some RNA enzymes were recently discovered (see ribozyme).
Industry:Agriculture
