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Variety

Meaning in agriculture, with examples

nounCore term

In agriculture, variety means: A named type of a crop plant with particular features, such as yield, quality, earliness or disease resistance, developed by breeders and sold as seed or plants.

In Turkish: çeşit, kültür çeşidi

How it is used

Farmers choose, test and register varieties; seed catalogs describe early, late, high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties. Breeders and official registers often use 'cultivar' as a more technical synonym.

Example sentences

  1. This durum wheat variety performs well under dry conditions.

  2. We tested four tomato varieties for resistance to the new virus.

Common collocations

  • new variety
  • high-yielding variety
  • early variety
  • resistant variety
  • variety trial
  • seedThe small part of a plant from which a new plant grows; in farming, also the grain or material kept or bought for sowing.
  • yieldThe amount of crop, milk or other product obtained from a given area or animal, usually given as tonnes per hectare or kilograms per decare.
  • cropA plant grown on a large scale for food, feed, fiber or income, such as wheat, cotton or tomatoes; also the amount of it gathered in one season.
  • germinationThe process in which a seed starts to grow and sends out a root and a shoot, once it has enough water, warmth and oxygen.
  • agronomistA specialist in crop production and soil management who advises farmers on varieties, fertilizer, irrigation and crop protection.

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