Horticulture

Horticulture

Of or pertaining to the business, science, and technology of intensely cultivating plants for the use of humans.

Industry: Plants

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Protoplasm

Plants; Horticulture

The key to life in the cell is a more or less transparent, slimy and mucilaginous liquid, called protoplasm. This protoplasm contains a nucleus and cytoplasm.

Quick test

Plants; Horticulture

Simple and rapid chemical tests of soils and plant tissues designed to give an approximation of nutrients available to plants. Simple and rapid chemical tests of soils designed to give an ...

Prostrate stems

Plants; Horticulture

Some plants send their shoots along the ground. Melons, cucumbers, etc., are examples of such prostrate stem plants.

Reaction (chemical)

Plants; Horticulture

Process in which substances react with one another and are thus altered.

The level or state of adequacy or inadequacy at which available plant nutrients are present in a soil. The level of availability of soil nutrients is commonly determined by soil testing, complemented ...

Solubility

Plants; Horticulture

The amount of substance that will dissolve at a given temperature in a specified water is known as solubility. To be available to plants a nutrient must be at least slightly soluble in the soil ...

Stoma

Plants; Horticulture

Intermingled with these ordinary epidermal cells are guard cells. They exist in pairs and provide a small opening or stoma for the exchange of CO2, O2 and H2O vapors. Often these outer surfaces of ...