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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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A group of people or institutes located in different places but working together for a common goal.
Industry:Agriculture
Gross farm income minus total farm costs.
Industry:Agriculture
Any of the class or phylum Nematoda of elongated cylindrical worms parasitic in animals or plants free-living in soil or water. Generally microscopic, wormlike animals that live saprophytically in water or soil.
Industry:Agriculture
The rate of plant weight increase per unit leaf area.
Industry:Agriculture
A chemical compound or physical agent that kills or inhibits nematodes.
Industry:Agriculture
Parasitic fungi that do not need a living host to be able to reproduce.
Industry:Agriculture
swimming animals capable of navigation.
Industry:Agriculture
A viral disease caused by the rice necrotic mosaic virus (RNMV). Polymyxa graminis is considered to be the vector of the RNMV. The disease occurs in central and southern Japan. Infected plants have elongate or spindle-shaped, yellow flecks and streaks on the basal portions of stems and sheaths. Plants may be moderately stunted with reduced tiller number and spreading growth habit. It can be transmitted by mechanical means and through the soil. There has been no evidence that insects or seeds transmit the disease.
Industry:Agriculture
The panicle is enclosed by a spathe-like leaf or leaf sheath arising at the panicle base. Occasionally, additional bracts may arise at the base of the panicle branches.
Industry:Agriculture
The nearly solid node between the uppermost internode of the culm and the panicle axis.
Industry:Agriculture