- Industry: Agriculture
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Sesamia inferens, a major pest in double-cropped areas because it has many host plants. The larva has an orange-red head capsule. The body is purplish-pink dorsally and white ventrally. The pupa is dark brown with a tinge of purple in the head region. The adult is fawn-colored with dark brown markings. The hindwings are white.
Industry:Agriculture
An open-ended tube placed vertically in the soil for measurement of the hydrostatic pressure level of groundwater.
Industry:Agriculture
A broad slope composed of alluvial or colluvial sediments, or both, extending along and from the base of a mountain range.
Industry:Agriculture
A unit of mass that is 10-12 of a gram. Commonly used to express the DNA content per cell or per nuclear genome in a plant.
Industry:Agriculture
Plant injury caused by chemicals or some other agent. Common symptoms are spotting, wilting, stunting, tiller spreading, and twisting of leaves.
Industry:Agriculture
Sanitary conditions and regulations imposed on export and imports of plant materials and seed.
Industry:Agriculture
A plant or plants used to measure the physical factors of the habitat by its response in terms of physiological activities.
Industry:Agriculture
A substance that inhibits the development of a fungus on hypersensitive tissues, formed when plant host cells come in contact with the parasite.
Industry:Agriculture
The processes, activities, and phenomena incidental to and characteristic of life or of living organisms. A branch of biology dealing with the study of the functions and activities of living matter (as of organs, tissues, or cells) as such and of the physical and chemical phenomena involved.
Industry:Agriculture
