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  • 71crop — [OE] Old English cropp meant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in… …

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  • 72crop — sb. == belly. Pol. S. 208. AS. cropp == produce of a plant. Wright’s L. P. p. 100 …

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  • 73plant —    1. to bury a corpse    The imagery of horticulture, without the crop:     Y wouldn t want to be planted without ceremony. Why not put Baptist? (Manning, 1962)    2. falsely to place incriminating evidence    Again with horticultural imagery:… …

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  • 74crop science — /ˈkrɒp saɪəns/ (say krop suyuhns) noun the science of plants grown for cropping, including molecular biology, genetics, morphology, physiology, cell biology, plant breeding, etc …

  • 75Bureau of Plant Industry (Philippines) — The Philippines Bureau of Plant Industry (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Paghahalaman ), abbreviated as BPI, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for serving and supporting the Philippine plant… …

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  • 76Cover crop — Agriculture General …

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  • 77Transgenic plant — Transgenic plants possess a gene or genes that have been transferred from a different species. Although DNA of another species can be integrated in a plant genome by natural processes, the term transgenic plants refers to plants created in a… …

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  • 78Roselle (plant) — Roselle Roselle plant Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae …

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  • 79Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction — This article discusses Selection methods in plant breeding based on mode of reproduction. Some plants reproduce by (more or less strict) self fertilization where pollen from a plant will fertilise reproductive cells or ovules of the same plant.… …

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  • 80Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders — Gartons= This is a short history of the United Kingdom s first agricultural plant breeding business. Dr John Garton, of the firm of Garton Brothers of Newton le Willows in the United Kingdom was the Originator of Scientific Farm Plant Breeding.… …

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