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  2. Agronomy - Wikipedia

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    Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation.Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science.

  3. Lists of useful plants - Wikipedia

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    The maguey was cultivated by the Aztecs for its numerous uses including construction, fibre, hedging and production of the sacred drink pulque. [1] This article contains a list of useful plants, meaning a plant that has been or can be co-opted by humans to fulfill a particular need. Rather than listing all plants on one page, this page instead ...

  4. Human uses of plants - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture deals with the production of food crops, and has played a key role in the history of world civilizations. Agriculture includes agronomy for arable crops, horticulture for vegetables and fruit, and forestry for timber. [3] About 7,000 species of plant have been used for food, though most of today's food is derived from only 30 species.

  5. Outline of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Agronomy – science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Plant sciencescience of plant life. Crop science – broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.

  6. Crop - Wikipedia

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    A crop is a plant that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. [1] In other words, a crop is a plant or plant product that is grown for a specific purpose such as food, fibre, or fuel. When plants of the same species are cultivated in rows or other systematic arrangements, it is called crop field or crop cultivation.

  7. Horticulture - Wikipedia

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    Horticulture is the Branch of Agriculture which deals with the cultivation of Garden crops like Fruit, vegetables ,spices, ornamentals. (Mr.Prashant singh) . Horticulture is science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.

  8. Agriculture classification of crops - Wikipedia

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    The term pulse is used for the seeds of plants from the Fabaceae family (legumes), such as beans, pea, lentil and chickpea. Pulses supply proteins and form chief source in vegetarian food. Leguminous plants fix nitrogen in root nodules - produced with the help of nitrogen fixing bacteria.

  9. Branches of botany - Wikipedia

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    Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...