crodatura

11:43 Nov 3, 2014
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Botany / Growing rice
Italian term or phrase: crodatura
Apparently, this means "sf. [etim. incerta]. Distacco precoce delle cariossidi dalle piante di riso, detto anche crodo. È un fenomeno di natura patologica la cui origine, non completamente precisata, si ritiene dipenda da fattori fisiologici o ambientali." (sapere.it)
But I have been unable to find an English translation for this term. Can anyone help please? Many thanks
suewiddicombe
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:46


Summary of answers provided
4 +1shattering
Shera Lyn Parpia
3Panicle blight
Elisa Pappolla
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weedy rice
Shera Lyn Parpia

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Panicle blight


Explanation:
Maybe "Panicle blight"
Cariossidi is like "panicles", and the cause of this disease is undetermined (la cui origine non completamente precisata)

See here, at the bottom of the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rice_diseases

Elisa Pappolla
Italy
Local time: 13:46
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian

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neutral  philgoddard: Possibly, but i don't understand what you mean by "cariossidi is like panicles".
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shattering


Explanation:
see for example

Plants and People - Pagina 301 - Risultati da Google Libri
books.google.co.in/books?isbn=0763785504 - Traduci questa pagina
James D. Mauseth - 2012 - ‎Science
6. Grains that are easier to harvest. Wild relatives of many cereal grains have such fragile fruit stalks that the seeds “shatter”: they fall off the plant before harvest ...

Cereal grains
www.life.illinois.edu/ib/363/CERGRAIN.htmlTraduci questa pagina
... cereal grains. Cereal grains provide more than one half of the total calories consumed by man. ... The one seeded fruit (a caryopsis) has a seed coat fused with the ovary wall. ... The plants are reseeded during the harvest by "shattering". ... Many branch at the base and produce more or less equal sized stems called tillers.

[PDF]seed dispersal and crop domestication: shattering ...
www.researchgate.net/...Shattering.../0912f508156...Traduci questa pagina
wild wheats and barley have fragile spikes, and their ears disarticulate im- ..... Rice shattering is controlled by abscission layers where the spikelet at- ... involucres are born on a stalk, and often include more than one grain, whereas in wild

Shera Lyn Parpia
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agree  Juliet Halewood (X)
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  -> thanks :)
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Reference comments


13 hrs
Reference: weedy rice

Reference information:
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_rice
Weedy rice, also known as red rice, is a variety of rice (Oryza) that produces far fewer grains per plant than cultivated rice and is therefore considered a pest. The name "weedy rice" is used for all types and variations of rice which show some characteristic features of cultivated rice and grow as weeds in commercial rice fields. Populations of weedy rice are found in many rice-growing regions.[1][2] Weedy rice varieties generally have fragile stalks that self-seed before harvest. Variations of weedy rice adapt to a wide range of natural conditions

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