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International Rice Research Institute
Industry: Agriculture
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A single datum or term in a collection of statistics. It is an estimate of a parameter made from a sample, with the quantity computed from a sample.
Industry:Agriculture
1). The major storage carbohydrate of plants; a polymer composed of D-glucose units occurring as amylopectin and amylose and found in chloroplasts, amyloplasts, and endosperm. 2). Major carbohydrate source for animals.
Industry:Agriculture
The crop grown as the basic diet of the population of a particular country or area.
Industry:Agriculture
An international system of classifying responses of rice to biological, chemical, and physical stresses, developed through cooperative efforts of rice scientists and published by IRRI in a booklet.
Industry:Agriculture
The measure of the average chance departure of a statistic from its expected value. It is sometimes known as the standard deviation of the means. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic.
Industry:Agriculture
The measure of variability given in mathematical terms of how much an observation differs from the mean set of observations. The positive square root of the average squared deviations of the observations from the mean.
Industry:Agriculture
A rice variety or breeding line whose response to a treatment is known and which is repeatedly included in tests as basis for comparing the reactions of tests entries. A resistant and a susceptible check are usually included.
Industry:Agriculture
A group of plants or trees growing together in a given area.
Industry:Agriculture
The part of the flower bearing the male reproductive cells; composed of the anthers on the filament (stalk).
Industry:Agriculture
The discolored grain usually due to fungal disease or infection.
Industry:Agriculture