- Industria: Agriculture
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Process by which moisture, temperature, and/or light is provided to ensure optimum conditions for seed germination.
Industry:Agriculture
Refers primarily to conditions of the seeds or seedlots as planting materials which may be affected by the presence of pathogens, insects and contaminants such as weeds.
Industry:Agriculture
An application of chemicals or fungicides to cover and protect seeds from parasites, pathogens, or adverse environmental conditions that cause damage to the seed or seedling.
Industry:Agriculture
A physical or physiological condition of a viable seed that prevents germination even under favorable germination conditions.
Industry:Agriculture
Dispatch of seed to other users. The way in which seed is distributed on the soil.
Industry:Agriculture
In rice, the seed coat or testa is firmly adhered to the maternal pericarp as one of the protective layers of the seed kernel.
Industry:Agriculture
A rectangular box specially constructed with the open top filled with good soil for germinating seeds.
Industry:Agriculture
The fertilized and ripened ovule of a seed plant, comprising a miniature plant usually accompanied by a supply of food (endosperm) enclosed in a protective seed coat, often accompanied by auxiliary structures, and capable, under suitable conditions, of independent development into a plant similar to the one that produced it. In rice, the grain is the common form of seed; the caryopsis is the true seed.
Industry:Agriculture
Solid particles transported and deposited by water, glaciers and wind.
Industry:Agriculture
Members of the family Cyperaceae. They bear a close resemblance to the grasses and can be distinguished by a thin triangular stem, the absence of ligules, and the fusion of leaf sheaths forming a tube around the stem.
Industry:Agriculture
