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CROSS-POLLINATION [2 records]

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Record 1 2013-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Genetics
DEF

Fertilization by pollen from another plant.

CONT

Cross-fertilization follows cross-pollination.

OBS

... corn, many forage grasses, and alfalfa are cross-pollinated.

OBS

Term used by the Canadian Grain Commission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Génétique
DEF

Fertilisation réalisée par du pollen provenant d'une autre plante.

CONT

[La] fécondation croisée suit la croisée.

OBS

[...] le maïs, un grand nombre de graminées fourragères et la luzerne se reproduisent par pollinisation croisée.

OBS

Terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecosistemas
  • Producción vegetal
  • Genética
DEF

Aplicación del polen de una planta a otra, para que tenga lugar la fecundación de la última.

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Record 2 2005-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

Innovation delivers the greatest economic advantages when it is shared. This happens when a community has a fairly free flow of ideas, technologies and workers which, in the process of recombining, creates even better ideas, tools and talents. This cross-pollination creates the ‘buzz' that marks a vibrant economy. The innovation community is one that can meld its many minds into a kind of collective super-brain.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
DEF

Échange de connaissances et d'expériences conduisant à un processus d'innovation.

Spanish

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