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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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Distance of planting between hills and between rows.
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
Method employing gel separation of restricted DNA fragments, their blotting onto a membrane support, dissociation into single stranded DNA, and hybridization (reassociation) with a radio-labeled probe.
Industry:Agriculture
A technique for the transfer of (denatured) DNA from an electrophoretic gel to a nitrocellulose membrane on which the DNA can be bound and hybridized to a single-stranded DNA probe.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Varieties of resistance. 2). Varieties or breeding lines that have genes for resistance.
Industry:Agriculture
Breeding nursery where all genetic material including sources imparting cytoplasmic male sterility, genotypes with specific traits useful for hybrid breeding program, and elite rice lines showing high general and specific combining ability are maintained for use in a hybrid breeding program.
Industry:Agriculture
The plural of sorus--a cluster of fruit dots in ferns.
Industry:Agriculture
1). The fusion of non-germ cells in cell culture under certain treatments and the formation of viable hybrid cells. 2). A breeding method that uses protoplast fusion to produce somatic hybrids between otherwise sexually compatible species.
Industry:Agriculture
Relating to or affecting the cell body.
Industry:Agriculture
1). A cell that is not destined to become a gamete, a "body cell" whose genes will not be passed on to future generations. 2). The somatic cell divides to form tissues, etc. It is a body cell that has full chromosome content.
Industry:Agriculture