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The escape of nitrogen from the soil or floodwater as ammonia gas; causes loss of urea and the ammonium form of nitrogen fertilizer from floodwater or saturated soil surfaces.
Industry:Agriculture
1). A component of starch that has a high molecular weight, long-branched chain structures, and does not tend to gel in aqueous solutions. 2). A type of starch molecule composed of long-branched chains of glucose units (a polysaccharide). 3). The major and branched fraction of starch, a glucose polymer with 5,000--19,000 glucose units and mean chain length of 18-22 glucose units. This fraction contributes directly to gel consistency and has a long linear chain fraction in high amylose starch.
Industry:Agriculture
A substance with both basic and acidic properties synthesized by plants and animals; considered the building blocks of proteins.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Said of plants resulting from a cross between two different species and having the total chromosome complement of the parent species. 2). Name given to allopolyploids which are produced when different genomes are combined through interspecific hybridization.
Industry:Agriculture
An interaction between two organisms in which one organism is suppressed by toxins produced by the second.
Industry:Agriculture
A term used in Bangladesh and east India for lowland rice grown in the wet season during June to November.
Industry:Agriculture
An individual or plant other than the main or preferred host upon which a parasite (or its spores, eggs, larvae, etc.) or a disease organism (pathogen) could live.
Industry:Agriculture
