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agronomy

[ uh-gron-uh-mee ]

noun

  1. the science of soil management and the production of field crops.


agronomy

/ əˈɡɒəɪ /

noun

  1. the science of cultivation of land, soil management, and crop production
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agronomy

/ ə-ŏə-ŧ /

  1. The scientific study of soil management and crop production, including irrigation and the use of herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzԴdz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··Դdz· [ag-r, uh, -, nom, -ik], ··Դdz·· adjective
  • ··Դdz···ly adverb
  • ·Dz·· noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of agronomy1

First recorded in 1805–15; agro- + -nomy
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In 2010, Jianxin Ma, a professor of agronomy, and his collaborators built the first reference genome for soybeans on the widely studied Williams 82 variety.

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"The results of our study are part of a growing trend to integrate advanced technologies into agriculture to achieve sustainability goals," resumes Benoît Mercatoris, co-author of the study and agronomy researcher at ULiège.

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She is the founder of a not-for-profit organisation to help feed those in poverty and has a PhD in agronomy.

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Africa's rice imports represent about a third of the rice traded on the global market, said Shen Yuan, a professor of agronomy at Huazhong Agricultural University and lead author of the article.

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He managed an NSF-funded project that brought together interdisciplinary teams of researchers in fields as disparate as agronomy, nuclear imaging, and polar science to examine barriers to data sharing.

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