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Rice science
Of or relating to the science of rice cultivation.
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Antenna (insects)
Agriculture; Rice science
A movable segmented appendage occurring in pairs on the head of an insect.
Aneuploid
Agriculture; Rice science
An individual with a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid chromosome complement.
Angiosperm
Agriculture; Rice science
Flowering plant. One of a group of plants whose seeds are enclosed in a mature ovary (fruit).
Amylose content
Agriculture; Rice science
The value representing the starch fraction of milled rice, or the amount of starch in the grain that determines its eating and cooking quality. Low-amylose rice varieties are moist, sticky, and ...
Anaerobic holding system
Agriculture; Rice science
A closed storage unit for partial digestion of liquid organic wastes in the absence of oxygen.
Amylose
Agriculture; Rice science
1). In cereal endosperm, it is the starch fraction of molecules or residues made up of glucose units, straight short chains (see nonwaxy endosperm). 2). The essentially linear fraction of starch, a ...
