(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.
Soil
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
(n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
(n.) Land; country.
(n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
(v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
(n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
(n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
(n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
(v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
(n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of the herbicide, Avadex (40% diallate), from five agricultural soils (differing in either pH, carbon content, or nitrogen content), incubated under sterile and non-sterile conditions, was followed for a period of 20 weeks.
(2) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(3) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(4) Fourteen soil bacteriophages active against Rhizobium trifolii W19 have been studied which fall into four structural groups.
(5) Recoveries of these 3 herbicides added to soil, wheat, and barley samples at 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm levels were between 65 and 93%.
(6) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(7) While undoubtedly a good understanding of soil microbiology in terms of pedology exists, little is presently known about unsaturated subsoils, and aquifers.
(8) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.
(9) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(10) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(11) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(12) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(13) High concentrations of mercury, cadmium, and lead have also been observed in urban soils.
(14) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(15) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(16) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
(17) An enzyme (nitrilase) that converts the herbicide bromoxynil (3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile) to its metabolite 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzoic acid was shown to be plasmid encoded in the natural soil isolate Klebsiella ozaenae.
(18) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
(19) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(20) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.