- Industry: Agriculture
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A variety which has genetic resistance to an adverse factor or pest. It is genetically able to suppress or retard the activity of a pathogen or insect. A variety which has genetic resistance to or tolerance for all adverse factors or pests.
Industry:Agriculture
The ability of populations of pests to survive doses of a pesticide which are normally lethal.
Industry:Agriculture
The inherent ability of an animal or plant body to resist (oppose, counteract) untoward circumstances such as insect attack, diseases, toxic agents, or infection.
Industry:Agriculture
Operations that cut, crush, or otherwise break (fracture) residues in a step preparatory to tillage, harvesting, or planting operation.
Industry:Agriculture
The plant part left after the economically useful part has been harvested.
Industry:Agriculture
The effect of chemical fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, or fungicides that remains in the following crop season without fresh application of the chemical.
Industry:Agriculture
The remainder of a chemical or a quality after the original application, or in statistical analysis of variance, the remainder when all true values are subtracted from observed or calculated values or values due to known sources of variation.
Industry:Agriculture
A planned inquiry into the nature of, reason for, and consequences of any particular set of circumstances; whether these circumstances are experimentally controlled or recorded as they occur. The purposes of research are a) to discover new facts, b) to revise, verify, or modify accepted conclusions in the light of newly discovered facts, c) to find practical application of such new facts, and d) to gather benchmark data and information.
Industry:Agriculture
