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Boll

An obsolete Scottish unit of dry volume. For beans, grass seed, peas, rye, salt, and wheat, one boll was approximately equivalent to 145.145 liters. For barley, malt, and oats, however, it was approximately equivalent to 211.664 liters.
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The justices on Tuesday adopted Boll's recommendations, immediately revoking Sweeney's license and ordering him to pay the $481,970 in restitution.
(2012) reported that 1st sympodial branch node was significantly and positively correlated with node number to set 1st boll and sympodial branch length.
The study was conducted between 18 July and 23 October 2014 in the experimental field of Embrapa Cotton in Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil, covering an area of 180[m.sup.2] (12x15m) that was historically infested by cotton boll weevil.
Each year at crop maturity, plants were harvested and boll weight, number of bolls, plant height and cotton yield was recorded.
between 15 March to 15 May, 2013 established plant availed optimum environmental condition in field (Norfleet et al., 1997; Linderholm, 2006) and keep boll unaffected from insects (Saeed et al., 2014), carry maximum number of monopodial (Butter et al., 2004), sympodial branches (El-Shahawy, 1999) and higher yield (Dounias et al., 2002; Mohammed et al., 2003; Yeats et al., 2010).
Rembert and Jedediah Prescott, of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and improved machine for picking or gathering cotton from the bolls upon the stalks of the plant while they are standing in the field; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification."
Mean squares for specific combining ability were highly significant (Pless than 0.01) for plant height, sympodial branches plant-1, bolls plant-1, boll weight, lint index and yield of seedcotton plant-1 and fiber strength.
Varieties of BT cotton are resistant against the attack of boll worm.
The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boheman 1843 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a serious pest of upland cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L.
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