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A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes). (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diapause)

Dicalcium phosphate is the calcium phosphate with the formula CaHPO4 and its dihydrate. CAS Nr. 7757-93-9 (Wikipedia, 2024. Dicalcium phosphate. [Cited 11 November 2024]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicalcium_phosphate)

Dicamba is a methoxybenzoic acid that is O-methylsalicylic acid substituted by chloro groups at positions 3 and 6. It has a role as a xenobiotic, an environmental contaminant, a herbicide, a synthetic auxin and an agrochemical. (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:81856)

Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics. (DeCS/MESH. 2018. Cohort Studies. https://decs.bvsalud.org/en/ths/resource/?id=28621)

A plant with two cotyledons. One of the two major classes of flowering plants (along with the monocotyledons). Examples include many crop plants (potato, pea, beans), ornamentals (rose, ivy) and timber trees (oak, beech, lime). (FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture, 2001)

A long, watertight compartment often constructed beneath a slatted or gridded floor in a building designed to collect faeces and urine as slurry or liquid manure prior to discharging under gravity to longer-term storage. A gate valve or sluice gate may be built into the channel to provide short-term storage. Commonly used in housing for fattening pigs or tied stall for cattle. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)

A disease caused by an infection with the protozoan parasite Trichomonas. This disease presents with symptoms depending on the site of infection. (International Classification of Diseases Eleventh Revision (ICD-11). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022. License: CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO.)

In 1972, the Latin American Association of Agricultural Librarians and Information Specialists (AIBDA), with support from the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA), established AGRINTER, the Regional System for Agricultural Information for Latin America and the Caribbean. Obsolete. (Adapted from Powell, Antoinette Paris, "Communicating Agricultural Information in Remote Places: Part I" (1995). Library Faculty and Staff Publications. 55. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/libraries_facpub/55)