crop
In vertebrates, it is an expanded part of the esophagus where food is stored while in invertebrates it is an expansion of the anterior part of the gut system where food is either digested or stored.
top crop. Fruit produced in the second fruiting cycle of cotton, mainly on upper branches.
toxin. A poisonous substance produced by a living organism.
trap crop - a managed plant population maintained to differentially attract target pests so that they will cause less damage in the crop grown for profit ...
Crop diversity is also necessary to help the system recover when the dominant crop type is attacked by a disease: ...
Crop parasites (Dutch Elm Disease, Karnal Bunt, Corn Smut, etc.).
Mushrooms (Agaricus campestris, the commercial mushroom), molds, mildews, rusts and smuts (plant parasites), yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisae, the brewer's yeast).
Plantae ...
many crop pests
Prior to the introduction of DDT, the number of cases of malaria in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) was more than a million a year. By 1963 the disease had been practically eliminated from the island.
Standing crop. The amount of living material per unit area or volume; may be expressed as grams of carbon, total dry weight, and so on ...
standing crop total amount of plant or animal material in an area at any one time
standing stock The total amount, or biomass, of an organism at a given time.
stapes Stirrup-shaped innermost bone of the middle ear.
There has been one crop developed to date that was demonstrated to cause allergy as a result of genetic engineering, and that was a soybean genetically engineered about a decade ago now to contain a Brazil nut gene.
Usually the location in the world where the oldest cultivation of a particular crop has been identified. Central dogma. Francis Crick's seminal concept that in nature genetic information generally flows from DNA to RNA to protein. Centrifugation.
To name just one, the observed development of resistance - to insecticides in crop pests, to antibiotics in bacteria, to chemotherapy in cancer cells, ...
Freshwater is required for domestic purposes, including drinking, crop irrigation, industrial use, and energy production. Freshwater resources include surface water from lakes and rivers, and underground aquifers.
Because there are only so many ways to arrange the four nucleotides--A,C,G and T--into a four or eight or twelve nucleotide sequence, recognition sequences tend to "crop up" by chance in any long sequence.
They saved the seeds from their best plants for use as next year's crop, and they took the best animals from their herds to mate together. Through trial and error, and over many generations, this process shaped the traits of numerous species.
Herbicide-tolerant crop: Crop plants that have been developed to survive application(s) of one or more commercially available herbicides by the incorporation of certain gene(s) via biotechnology methods such as genetic engineering or traditional ...
Freshwater biomes supply us with our drinking water and water for crop irrigation. The world's oceans have an even greater effect on global climate than forests do.
Common for many (perennial) crop plants, such as fruit trees, potatoes.
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- The tobacco whitefly, and important crop pest and vector of over 60 plant viruses
Tomato
- A mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit from the nightshade family (like the potato and eggplant) native to South America ...
Origin: chin. Hi-tshun, lit, first crop, or blooming spring.
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Genetic assimilation. Eventual extinction of a natural species as massive pollen flow occurs from another related species and the older crop becomes more like the new crop. See Gene flow.
In the future, biotechnology may be able to improve crop yields and produce plants that contain all of the amino acids required for human consumption.
Sampling: Estimating the density of organisms (pests or natural enemies) or damage by examining a defined portion of the crop.
Scouting, Scout: see Sampling.
Septicemia: Blood poisoning caused by pathogenic organisms.
Often, GMOs are produced using gene cloning methods as a means of introducing a non-native gene into a new "recombinant" organism. An example of this is introduction of genes for natural pesticides into non-native crop plants, ...
pst infected blood in the crop and so passage of infected blood to bitten individuals. Subsequent mutations in the bacterial chromosome may have removed the (now unecessary) ability of the bacterium to colonise the mammalian host's gut.
Applying knowledge from a weed to enhance our understanding of a crop species". Plant Physiol. 135 (2): 622¨C9. doi:10.1104/pp.104.040170. PMID 15208410.
^ Coelho SM, Peters AF, Charrier B, et al (2007).
 See also: Plant, Organ, Trans, Animal, Human
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