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Rice science
Of or relating to the science of rice cultivation.
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Chloroplast
Agriculture; Rice science
A plastid containing chlorophyll; seat of photosynthesis in eukaryotes.
Axenic
Agriculture; Rice science
Free of all other associated life, said of organisms isolated in soil culture; germ-free.
Axil
Agriculture; Rice science
The upper angle between a leaf or a branch or a stem from which it arises.
Backcross breeding
Agriculture; Rice science
A method for developing a new variety in which a simply inherited trait is transferred through the backcross method.
Azolla
Agriculture; Rice science
A water fern that fixes nitrogen symbiotically with the blue-green alga Anabaena.
Bacteriophage
Agriculture; Rice science
A virus that infects bacteria, usually with destruction or lysis of the host cell.
Bacteriostatic
Agriculture; Rice science
A chemical or physical agent that prevents multiplication of bacteria without killing them.