General agriculture

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Cryptogams

Agriculture; General agriculture

Plants and plant-like organisms, such as mosses, ferns, fungi, and algae, that reproduce by spores and not by seeds.

Cryptorchidism

Agriculture; General agriculture

A developmental defect characterised by failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.

Environmental credit trading is a market-based approach to achieve pollution abatement goals set by environmental regulations. A credit is given to providers of pollution abatement. Regulated firms ...

Biological corridors

Agriculture; General agriculture

Areas connecting separated habitats which allow movement to and access by wild species. These spaces make gene flow between isolated populations possible and may ameliorate negative effects of ...

Corporations

Agriculture; General agriculture

A for profit business organisation where the corporation is a distinct entity from the people who control, manage and own it. Stockholders and company officials (e.g. board of directors) are ...

Spindle pole body

Agriculture; General agriculture

The microtubule organising centre of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which functions like the centrosome of mammalian cells.

Corms

Agriculture; General agriculture

A solid, short, swollen underground stem which serves as an asexual propagule for the plant, lasts only one year, and bears the next year's growth at the top of the old corm.