Glossary of Agricultural Terms

  1. sacral spine
  2. Safe Drinking Water Act
  3. safety assessment
  4. safety equipment
  5. safety factor
  6. safety standards
  7. sago
  8. Sahel
  9. sales
  10. sales tax
  11. saline soils
  12. salivary ducts
  13. salmonellosis
  14. salpingitis
  15. salt marsh plants
  16. salt marshes
  17. salt substitutes
  18. salt tolerance
  19. salting
  20. salvage logging
  21. Samoa
  22. sanitary and phytosanitary regulations
  23. sanitation
  24. sanitizing
  25. sap
  26. saphenous vein
  27. saplings
  28. saponins
  29. sapstain fungi
  30. sapwood
  31. sarcopenia
  32. sarcoplasmic reticulum
  33. Sargasso Sea
  34. satellite DNA
  35. satellite RNA
  36. savannas
  37. sawlogs
  38. Scandinavia
  39. scanning probe microscopy
  40. scanning tunneling microscopy
  41. scavenging behavior
  42. Scedosporium
  43. scenario uncertainty
  44. schiff bases
  45. schistosomiasis haematobia
  46. schistosomiasis japonica
  47. schistosomiasis mansoni
  48. schizophrenia
  49. school children
  50. Schwann cells
  51. scintigraphy
  52. scions
  53. sclereids
  54. sclerenchyma
  55. sclerophyll forests
  56. sclerosis
  57. sclerotization
  58. scombroid poisoning
  59. scrapie
  60. screening
  61. scrub typhus
  62. sea level
  63. seafoods
  64. seagrasses
  65. seal of quality
  66. seasonal wetlands
  67. seaweed culture
  68. second growth
  69. secondary attack rate
  70. secondary contact
  71. secondary education
  72. secondary forests
  73. secondary metabolites
  74. secondary productivity
  75. secondary sector
  76. secondary succession
  77. secondary transmission
  78. secretin
  79. secretory granules
  80. sediment contamination
  81. sediment yield
  82. sedimentary rocks
  83. sediments
  84. seed cotton
  85. seed dressings
  86. seed exchange
  87. seed germ
  88. seed orchards
  89. seed priming
  90. seed scarification
  91. seed stratification
  92. seed trees
  93. seedling production
  94. seedlings
  95. seeds
  96. selection criteria
  97. selection index
  98. selection response
  99. selenoproteins
  100. self-efficacy
  101. self-perception
  102. self-pollination
  103. semen banks
  104. semiarid zones
  105. seminal plasma proteins
  106. senescence (aging)
  107. sensors (equipment)
  108. sensory disorders
  109. sensory neurons
  110. sepsis (infection)
  111. septicemia
  112. sequence alignment
  113. sequence analysis
  114. sequence deletion
  115. sequence homology
  116. sequential cropping
  117. sericin
  118. serological surveys
  119. serology
  120. serotonin
  121. serotypes
  122. serpentine
  123. serpentinite
  124. sesquiterpenoids
  125. sewage
  126. sex hormones
  127. sex preselection
  128. sex allocation
  129. sex chromatin
  130. sex determination
  131. sex determination analysis
  132. sex reversal
  133. shade agroforestry systems
  134. shade trees
  135. shadow prices
  136. shallots
  137. sharecropping
  138. shear strength
  139. sheep diseases
  140. sheet erosion
  141. shelf life
  142. shell gland
  143. shelterbelts
  144. shelterwood systems
  145. shifting cultivation
  146. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
  147. Shiga-like toxin
  148. shrink-swell potential
  149. shrublands
  150. sialome
  151. siblicide
  152. sibling species
  153. siderophores
  154. Sierra Nevada (California)
  155. sigma factors
  156. sigmoidoscopy
  157. signal peptide
  158. signal transducing adaptor proteins
  159. silage
  160. silicone
  161. siloxanes
  162. silver compounds
  163. silvicultural systems
  164. silviculture
  165. silvopastoral systems
  166. Sindbis virus
  167. single nucleotide polymorphism
  168. singlet oxygen
  169. sinus venosus atrial septal defect
  170. sires
  171. sisomicin
  172. site index
  173. site-directed mutagenesis
  174. site-specific recombination
  175. skeletal development
  176. skim milk
  177. skin grafting
  178. skin neoplasms
  179. slash
  180. sleep deprivation
  181. sleep disorders
  182. sludge
  183. small farms
  184. small interfering RNA
  185. small nuclear RNA
  186. small schools
  187. smelting
  188. smoke management
  189. smoking (food products)
  190. smoltification
  191. smolts
  192. smooth endoplasmic reticulum
  193. snags
  194. snow damage
  195. soaps
  196. soapstock
  197. social barriers
  198. social capital
  199. social cohesion
  200. social inequality