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11Plant physiology — is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.Salisbury, Frank B. Cleon W. Ross, 1992. Plant physiology , 4th ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing). ISBN 0 534 15162 0] Closely related fields include …
12crop — ► NOUN 1) a plant, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable, cultivated for food or other use. 2) an amount of a crop harvested at one time. 3) an amount of people or things appearing at one time: the current crop of politicians. 4) a very short… …
13crop — [kräp] n. [ME croppe < OE croppa, a cluster, flower, crop of bird, hence kidney, pebble; akin to Frank * kruppa, Ger kropf, a swelling, crop of bird (basic sense “something swelling out or swollen”) < IE * gr eu b , curving out < base *… …
14Crop (disambiguation) — Crop may refer to: Crop, a plant grown and harvested for agricultural use Crop (anatomy), part of the alimentary tract of some animals Crop (implement), a modified whip used in horseback riding or disciplining humans (as punishment or in BDSM)… …
15Crop scouting — is precise assessments of pest pressure (typically insects) and crop performance to evaluate economic risk from pest infestations and disease, and the potential effectiveness of pest and disease control interventions. Scouting is usually sold as… …
16plant´like´ — plant «plant, plahnt», noun, verb. –n. 1. any living thing that is not an animal; a vegetable, in the widest sense. A plant is traditionally distinguished from an animal by the absence of locomotion and of special organs of sensation and… …
17Plant disease forecasting — is a management system used to predict the occurrence or change in severity of plant diseases. At the field scale, these systems are used by growers to make economic decisions about disease treatments for control. Often the systems ask the grower …
18Plant ally — Plant allies are plants grown near crop plants for the purpose of providing some benefit to the crop. Frequently these benefits involve helping with pest control, sometimes by being a more attractive host for the pest, sometimes by attracting… …
19Crop protection — is the branch of horticulture concerned with protecting crops from pests, weeds, disease and theft. It encompasses: Pesticide based approaches such as herbicides, insecticides and fungicides Biological pest control approaches such as cover crops …
20crop — O.E. cropp bird s craw, also head or top of a sprout or herb. The common notion is protuberance. Cognate with O.H.G. kropf, O.N. kroppr. Meaning harvest product is c.1300, probably through verb meaning cut off the top of a plant (c.1200). The… …
