(n.) The science of the distribution and management of land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The DHs were grown in a randomized, replicated field experiment and a range of agronomic and quality traits were recorded.
(2) The Rhizobium meliloti (Rm) lacZ gene provides a convenient model to investigate patterns of gene regulation in these agronomically important bacteria.
(3) We start to integrate the environmental data, the agronomic data and the operating data – what the farmer did and when,” Friedberg said.
(4) The results obtained in the agronomic study were subjected to analysis of variance for the respective design, with significant differences found between treatments for all the variables studied.
(5) Although protein quantity of cottonseed from various cultivars differ and can be influenced by agronomic practices, this variability is not reflected in quality of cottonseed protein as detected by gel electrophoretic techniques.
(6) Protein and oil contents are highly negative correlated, they are genetically controlled and can also be influenced by environmental conditions and agronomic practices.
(7) The data indicated poor correlation between the analytically defined and agronomically determined availability of phosphorus.
(8) The purpose of the studies was to get a good assessment of the health hazards of the particular formulation, used under the specific circumstances and agronomic requirements of the area of application and taking into account all local, climatic and cultural conditions that could be of possible influence.
(9) Increased expression of the insect control protein genes of Bacillus thuringiensis in plants has been critical to the development of genetically improved plants with agronomically acceptable levels of insect resistance.
(10) For this reason, we are looking for agronomics methods to get lower quantities of nitrates.
(11) A randomized complete block design was used with two agronomic replicates.
(12) It is also important to develop comprehensive drying simulation models to encompass agronomic practices, such as planting and harvesting.
(13) This is of particular relevance to studies on mutant and agronomically important organisms.
(14) Symptomatic treatment of affected animals and agronomic control measures attempted by farmers were unsuccessful in controlling the disease.
(15) This report of a case of pigeon-breeder's lung is made so that, among occupations in highly urbanized Singapore, those in the agronomics sector should not be forgotten.
(16) Economies in fertilizer use can be made by adherence to known agronomic principles.
(17) Agronomic studies were conducted that compared this insoluble fraction with the original bone meal material and with reagent grade Ca(H2PO4)2.H2O.
(18) We have found that allelic isozyme markers and ecological factors provide an important predictive method for identifying elite genotypes characterized by single or multiple disease resistances, high protein content, and a variety of quantitative traits of agronomic importance including germination, earliness, biomass, and yield variables.
(19) These results indicate that canola can be genetically engineered successfully, and that the Agrobacterium-based transformation system employed does not induced any adverse effects on the intrinsic agronomic and qualitative traits critical to the agricultural industry.
(20) Since the most important agronomic traits are controlled by QTL, this effort will have to be undertaken.
Agronomy
Definition:
(n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
(2) Infrared scanners on board a satellite are used for observation of cloud cover; airborne infrared scanners are used for forest fire detection, heat budget of soils, detecting insect attack, diseases, air pollution damage, water stress, salinity stress on vegetation, only to cite some main applications relevant to agronomy.
(3) A 26-m bore was installed in November of 1988 at a site of the Purdue University Agronomy Research Center.
(4) An agronomy station has been set up to carry out trials and tests of crop varieties that might be adapted to the region.
(5) A one semester course (54 hours) was given to 22 students of the 7th semester of Agronomy and two Ecuatorian agronomists (with AID scholarships).
(6) The aim of this study carried out in a soil of the experimental station of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Bs.
(7) Since some time, the non-isotopic labelling is allowing to contemplate a widespread diagnostic use of it in daily medical, veterinary and agronomy practice.
(8) Crop yields are plateauing across the board in Britain," said Stuart Knight, director of crops and agronomy at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and lead author of a new government study of the phenomenon.
(9) According to four different genetic models, the genetic patterns of 8 agronomy traits were analysed by using the data of 24 generations which included positive and negative cross of 81008 x Tower, both of the varieties are of good quality.
(10) The purpose of this study was to evaluate a set of teaching materials on food, nutrition and agriculture, adapted at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, within the scope of a project with AID and the School of Agronomy of the Chilean Catholic University (U. C.) aimed at incorporating the teaching of human nutrition into the curriculum of Latin American agronomists.