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A system of breeding in which a number of genotypes which have been progeny-tested with respect to some character or group of characters are composited to form a variety.
Industry:Agriculture
In plant breeding, plants originating from common parents or a common cross that is undergoing selection or improvement and which may become identified as a variety.
Industry:Agriculture
A compound containing carbonates, oxides and/or hydroxides or calcium and/or magnesium used to neutralize soil acidity.
Industry:Agriculture
Said of leaves that lack collar, ligule, and auricles; synonymous with juncturaless. The blade stands upright at base.
Industry:Agriculture
A thin, upright, membranous appendage at the top of the leaf sheath. It is attached to the base on the inside of the leaf collar of the rice plant and some grasses.
Industry:Agriculture
A device for collecting insects, consisting of a light source which attracts insects at night and a mechanism that traps the insects.
Industry:Agriculture
Light intensity at the ground level of a population divided by the light intensity at the top of the population.
Industry:Agriculture
Joining of DNA fragments to produce a single DNA molecule. Ligases are enzymes which perform this reaction. Fragments of plant DNA are ligated into bacterial plasmids during the cloning of probes for use for RFLP analysis.
Industry:Agriculture
