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(1) A statistical procedure that allows subdivision of the total variation among experimental units into known sources of variation and provides a measure for each source. (2) The statistical analysis that tests the significance of variable sources.
Industry:Agriculture
A union of a hypha or vessel with another resulting in exchange of their contents. Fusion of hyphal cells of fungi involving the cell wall or cytoplasm.
Industry:Agriculture
The stage of cell division (mitosis and meiosis) in which the chromosome halves move toward the opposite poles of the spindle.
Industry:Agriculture
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 glossy after cooking. Rice with a high amylose content cooks dry and fluffy.
Industry:Agriculture
A closed storage unit for partial digestion of liquid organic wastes in the absence of oxygen.
Industry:Agriculture
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 polymer of glucose (dextrose) with up to 1,000 glucose units. It gives a blue complex with iodine and contributes directly to cooked rice hardness. It is measured colorimetrically by its blue complex with iodine in acetate buffer.
Industry:Agriculture
The enzyme responsible for catalyzing the breakdown of starch into sugars; may be active in one of two forms: a-amylase and b-amylase.
Industry:Agriculture
