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A substance which is absorbed by plants and is necessary for completion of the life cycle.
Industry:Agriculture
The distance from the base of the plant at ground level to the top of the highest leaf or the panicle of a mature plant, measured in centimeters.
Industry:Agriculture
Natural and synthetic compounds that elicit growth, developmental or metabolic responses. These substances are usually not metabolites in the sense that they are not intermediates or products of the pathways they control, and they are active at very low concentrations.
Industry:Agriculture
Broad class of chemicals that control the growth of plants. Many are also natural compounds found within plants, where they may act as hormones.
Industry:Agriculture
Mostly small, floating organisms (flora and fauna) drifting passively, whose movements largely depend on water currents.
Industry:Agriculture
A usually continuous central core of predominantly parenchymatous tissue that occurs in the stem of most vascular plants and some roots as part of the primary tissue system. Typically surrounded by vascular tissue, probably functions chiefly in storage, and may disappear leaving a void in some plants.
Industry:Agriculture
The female reproductive organ of a flower consisting of the ovary, style, and stigma.
Industry:Agriculture
1). A compound leaf having the leaflets or segments arranged on either side of a common axis. 2). Resembling a feather's construction. Leaflets are arranged on each side of a common axis.
Industry:Agriculture
