- Industry: Agriculture
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A poison for rodents that acts swiftly and causes death shortly after ingestion. An example is zinc phosphide.
Industry:Agriculture
To fit or adjust to a particular environment or a set of specific climatic conditions through a change in the plant's growth and development.
Industry:Agriculture
The growth stage of plants when there is rapid development of leaves, tillers, branches, or stems.
Industry:Agriculture
An organism living on another living organism during part of its life cycle or living on the dead tissues of its host.
Industry:Agriculture
A breeder's term for a collection of germplasm that is used often and is maintained live.
Industry:Agriculture
The potent portion of a compound (such as fertilizer, insecticide, fungicide or herbicide applied on the soil or plant) used as basis to estimate the chemical effect. Useful for comparing the strength or toxicity of chemicals.
Industry:Agriculture
Phenotypic (see phenotype) changes produced on a plant by the environment during the plant's development. Such characters (defined) are uninheritable.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Bacteria with branching filaments. 2). A nontaxonomic term applied to a group of organisms with characteristics intermediate between the simple bacteria and the true fungi.
Industry:Agriculture
A soil with a pH value of less than 7.0; for practical purposes, soils with pH below 6.6.
Industry:Agriculture
