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International Rice Research Institute
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Plant belonging to the family Leguminosae. Most legumes form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria in specialized nodule structures that fix nitrogen.
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An iron-containing, red pigment produced in root nodules during the symbiotic association between Rhizobium and leguminous plants.
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A segment of a compound leaf.
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Insect of the order Homoptera, family Cicadellidae, which feeds by sucking sap from leaf veins of the rice plant. They have more slender bodies and move more quickly than planthoppers.
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The insect Cnaphalocrocis medinalis which causes damage by making a leafy tube and feeds within the tube consuming the leaf tissues except the epidermis.
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The vascular bundles of the leaf. In monocotyledonous plants such as rice, leaf veins are seen as longitudinal ridges.
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The lower part of the leaf enclosing the stem, originating from a node and wrapping around the culm above the node.
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Change in color from green to yellow or brown due to a reduction of metabolic activities in the plant preceding the death of the plant. Natural drying of the leaves due to crop maturity.
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The removal of the epidermal portion of a leaf by the feeding of an insect.
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A rice disease caused by the fungus Gerlachia oryzae with symptoms consisting of zonate lesions starting from leaf tips or edges; the symptoms are usually observed in mature leaves.
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