Rice science

Rice science

Of or relating to the science of rice cultivation.

Contributors in Rice science

Rice science

A small one-seeded dry indehiscent fruit (as in grasses) with a thin membranous pericarp adhering so closely to the seed that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body forming a single grain (wheat ...

Centre of distribution

Agriculture; Rice science

Centre of origin; the hypothesised geographical area from which any organism or species has spread.

Cellulose

Agriculture; Rice science

A long-chain complex carbohydrate compound (polysaccharide) with the general formula (C 6 H 12 O 6 )n. It is the chief substance forming cell walls and woody parts of plants.

Aridic

Agriculture; Rice science

A soil moisture regime that limits plant growth during much of the growing season.

Aril

Agriculture; Rice science

An outer covering of the seed arising from the stalk of the ovule or below the hilum, the pulpy inner pod.

Antigen

Agriculture; Rice science

Foreign protein and occasionally complex lipids, carbohydrates, and some nucleic acids, which upon injection into a warm-blooded animal, induce the production of antibodies.

Antisense

Agriculture; Rice science

Strand of DNA or RNA complementary to the sense strand of a gene. Sense and antisense strands anneal in vivo and cause inactivation of the gene's expression.