- Industry: Agriculture
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An experimental design that can be used only for factorial experiments. It divides factors into two groups, one assigned to main plots and another to subplots. The precision of the measurement of effects related to the main plot factors is sacrificed to improve that of the subplot factors.
Industry:Agriculture
Application of chemical or fertilizer divided into two or more parts and applied at given intervals.
Industry:Agriculture
An instrument used for high-accuracy, automated spectral measurements over the UV to the infrared range.
Industry:Agriculture
The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of another substance (usually water at 4 °) taken as a standard when both densities are obtained by weighing in air.
Industry:Agriculture
A structure consisting of intersecting strips of wood which form a network of square compartments. It is placed over the soil in a seedbox and seeds of test entries are placed in the compartments.
Industry:Agriculture
Growing one crop alone or in pure stand, either as a single crop or as a sequence of single crops within the year.
Industry:Agriculture
Groups of mineral particles separated on the basis of range in size. The principal separates are sand, silt, and clay.
Industry:Agriculture
A breeding technique that aims at incorporating different resistance gene(s) into similar improved varietal backgrounds and releasing them sequentially, enabling farmers to choose the variety on the basis of biotype/race identified. As the biotype/pathogen population shifts and the variety becomes susceptible, a new variety with a different gene is released.
Industry:Agriculture
Growing two crops in rapid sequence, planting one immediately after the harvest of the first, on the same piece of land.
Industry:Agriculture
