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corn crib. Also corn house, ambar, or hórreo. A granary used to dry and store harvested maize. corporate farming The practice of large-scale agriculture on farms owned or greatly influenced by corporations or large private businesses. The concept includes not only corporate ownership of farmland and the means of production, but also the roles ...
A sclereid which contains a druse and has the lignin deposited excentrically on the cell wall to form a cup shape, or in cross-section, a ∪-shape. crown See canopy. cross To make something interbreed; the act of hybridization. cruciform Cross-shaped. crustaceous Hard, thin and brittle. crustose Forming a closely applied surface layer or crust ...
A cross-section of an ear of corn, showing the cob. A corncob, also called corn cob or cob of corn, is the hard core of an ear of maize, bearing the kernels, made up of the chaff, woody ring, and pith. Corncobs contain mainly cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. [1]
A second use of the term "open pollination" refers to pollination by insects, birds, wind, or other natural mechanisms. This can be contrasted with cleistogamy, closed pollination, which is one of the many types of self pollination.
Symmetry in biology refers to the symmetry observed in organisms, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria. External symmetry can be easily seen by just looking at an organism. For example, the face of a human being has a plane of symmetry down its centre, or a pine cone displays a clear symmetrical spiral pattern.
This distribution is thought to improve chances of cross-fertilization, as pollen is unlikely to be blown vertically upward within the crown of one plant, but can drift slowly upward in the wind, blowing from low on one plant to higher on another plant. In some conifers, male cones additionally often grow clustered in large numbers together ...
The Old world brought back seeds for foods such as corn, peppers, tomatoes and pineapples. In exchange, Europeans brought with them apples, pears, stone and citrus fruits, bananas and coconuts. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Nowadays, the United States is a major exporter of many of these transplants for food and ornamental value, such as peaches, grapes, and ...
Cross section (fiber), microscopic view of textile fibers. Section (fiber bundle) , in differential and algebraic geometry and topology, a section of a fiber bundle or sheaf Cross-sectional data , in statistics, econometrics, and medical research, a data set drawn from a single point in time