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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.

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