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Transmitting light but causing sufficient diffusion to eliminate perception of distinct images; intermediate between clear and opaque.
Industry:Agriculture
The opposite of chalkiness; measured with a Riken-Sanno Rice Meter which measures transmitted light through a fixed volume of rice grains, one model for brown rice, another for milled rice.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Genetic. Change in position of a segment of a chromosome to another location in the same or a different chromosome. 2). Physiological. The movement of assimilates (carbohydrates or nutrients) from one plant organ to another in response to stress or ontogeny. 3). Breakage and reunion of chromatid at a different point of the chromosome.
Industry:Agriculture
The process by which the genetic information of RNA is used to specify and direct the synthesis of proteins. Occurs in ribosomes.
Industry:Agriculture
A virus disease of rice transmitted by green leafhoppers (Nephotettix nigropictus, N. cincticeps, and N. virescens). The characteristic symptoms are yellowing of leaves, reduced tillering, and stunting. The disease is similar to tungro since it is transmitted by the same insect.
Industry:Agriculture
Expression of a transforming gene by recipient cells over a relatively brief time span; does not necessarily indicate integration of the gene into the plant chromosome.
Industry:Agriculture
A segregation pattern in which the segregants exceed the limits of the parents.
Industry:Agriculture
Descriptive of an organism that contains some genetic material that has been experimentally transferred into it from some other source.
Industry:Agriculture
The genetic modification induced by the incorporation of "foreign" DNA into a cell.
Industry:Agriculture
