- Industry: Agriculture
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A pesticide that kills a certain pest or group of pests and causes little or no injury to others.
Industry:Agriculture
A marker that permits the selection of recombinants over the parental types.
Industry:Agriculture
An herbicide that kills or stunts some plant species but causes little or no injury to others.
Industry:Agriculture
The proportion or ratio of plants selected to the total number of plants, the process is used to measure the effectiveness of natural selection in altering the genetic composition of a population.
Industry:Agriculture
A measurement of selection intensity taking the difference between the average value of a character as compared with the value of the selection in a population.
Industry:Agriculture
The changes from one generation to another in the value of the character being selected for.
Industry:Agriculture
1). In genetics, discrimination among individuals in the number of offspring contributed to the next generation with a defined target. 2). In plant breeding, the process that favors or induces the survival and perpetuation of one kind of organism in competition with others.
Industry:Agriculture
Varieties or breeding lines that are resistant in initial screening tests and are selected for further screening in replicated tests to confirm the resistance.
Industry:Agriculture
