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Rourkela

(Encyclopedia)Rourkela rôrkāˈlə [key], city (1991 pop. 398,864), Odisha (Orissa) state, E central India, at the confluence of the Koel and Lankh rivers. The city is built around a large iron and steel plant. Ot...

coffee tree, Kentucky

(Encyclopedia)coffee tree, Kentucky, common name for the plant species Gymnocladus dioica, a tree of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) and native to the E United States. The seeds of the woody pods have been us...

Radford

(Encyclopedia)Radford, city (1990 pop. 15,940), surrounded by but independent of Pulaski and Montgomery counties, SW Va., on the New River; settled 1756, inc. as a city 1892. Motors, iron castings, clothing and tex...

Bolley, Henry Luke

(Encyclopedia)Bolley, Henry Luke, 1865–1956, American plant pathologist, b. Dearborn co., Ind. He is noted for his work on organisms causing diseases of crop plants (including the discovery of the cause of potato...

rust, in botany

(Encyclopedia)rust, in botany, name for various parasitic fungi of the order Uredinales and for the diseases of plants that they cause. Rusts form reddish patches of spores on the host plant. About 7,000 species ar...

wintergreen

(Encyclopedia)wintergreen or checkerberry, low evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), native to sandy and acid woods (usually of evergreens) of E North America and frequentl...

yam

(Encyclopedia)yam, common name for some members of the Dioscoreaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical climbing herbs or shrubs with starchy rhizomes often cultivated for food. The largest genus, Dioscorea, is ...

Fukushima

(Encyclopedia)Fukushima fo͝oko͞oˈshĭmä [key], city, capital of Fukushima prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on the Kiso ...

Monmouth, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Monmouth, city (1990 pop. 9,489), seat of Warren co., W Ill.; inc. 1852. Located in a farm area, it is a trade center with a packing plant. Manufactures include pottery, farm tools, and feed. Monmouth...

rotation of crops

(Encyclopedia)rotation of crops, agricultural practice of varying the crops on a piece of land in a planned series, to save or increase the mineral or organic content of the soil, to increase crop yields, and to er...