What's the difference between agronomy and agrostology?

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.

Agrostology


Definition:

  • (n.) That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

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