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Horticulture - Gardening, Landscaping, Plant Care | Britannica Although much research is carried out on horticultural food crops, there has been an increasing emphasis on ornamentals Horticultural research is also conducted by private companies among the seed industry, canning and processing firms, and private foundations and botanical gardens
horticulture summary | Britannica Two important horticultural techniques are training (changing a plant’s orientation in space) and pruning (judicious removal of plant parts), used to improve the appearance or usefulness of plants
Propagation, Plant Breeding, Cultivation - Britannica Horticulture - Propagation, Plant Breeding, Cultivation: Propagation, the controlled perpetuation of plants, is the most basic of horticultural practices Its two objectives are to achieve an increase in numbers and to preserve the essential characteristics of the plant
Horticulture - Breeding, Cultivation, Plant Genetics | Britannica Plant breeding, the systematic improvement of plants through the application of genetic principles, has placed improvement of horticultural plants on a scientific basis The raw material of improvement is found in the great variation that exists between cultivated plants and related wild species
Horticulture - Education, Research, Plants | Britannica Although much research is carried out on horticultural food crops, there has been an increasing emphasis on ornamentals Horticultural research is also conducted by private companies among the seed industry, canning and processing firms, and private foundations and botanical gardens
Primitive culture - Horticulture, Societies, Subsistence | Britannica Among horticultural peoples with chiefdoms, the chief’s ancestors, in time, become gods The most remote ancestors, the founders of the chiefly lineage, are the most important gods; more recent ancestors and those of related but collateral lines have a lesser status
Primitive culture - Herding, Nomadic, Pastoralism | Britannica Horticultural tribes, by contrast, though living in even smaller villages and greater poverty and ignorance, possess in some sense a complete culture What seems universal is the peasant’s low status, with its concomitant ascription of poverty and ignorance, in contrast to other parts of the same culture
Yanomami | History, Traditions, Economy, Facts | Britannica Yanomami, South American Indians, speakers of a Xiriana language, who live in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the Amazon River basin in northern Brazil They practice slash-and-burn agriculture and live in small semipermanent villages