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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Concept information

  1. Plant Production, Gardening
  2. plant cultural practices
  3. culling (plants)

Preferred term

culling (plants)

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information The individual removal of genetically undesirable, inferior, weak, diseased or infested plants from a planting in order to ensure the level of genetic purity or vigor of the crop.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • rogueing
  • rogue removal
  • roguing

Scope note

  • Use for the cultural practice of removing genetically undesirable or weak seedlings; For the removal of undesirable plants usually of a different species than the crop USE weed control.

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/104900

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