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Agrigentum inscription

The Agrigentum inscription is a Punic dedication on stone found in the tophet of Salammbô at Carthage, commemorating the Carthaginian capture of the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Agrigentum) in 406 BC.

Agrimonia

Agrimonia (agrimony) is a genus of Rosaceae perennial herbs with yellow flowers and hooked burs, native to temperate Northern Hemisphere regions; type species A. eupatoria, used as the herbal drug Agrimoniae herba.

Agrimonia eupatoria

Agrimonia eupatoria (agrimony, church steeples) is a Rosaceae perennial herb of Europe, North Africa, and Asia; its dried flowering tops (Agrimoniae herba) are a tannin-rich traditional astringent drug regulated by an EMA monograph.

Agrippina the Elder

Agrippina the Elder (Vipsania Agrippina, c. 14 BCE–33 CE), granddaughter of Augustus and wife of Germanicus, mother of Caligula and grandmother of Nero; exiled to Pandateria by Tiberius in 29 CE and starved to death in 33, later honored posthumously by Caligula.

Agrippina the Younger

Agrippina the Younger (Julia Agrippina, 15–59 CE), Julio-Claudian imperial woman: sister of Caligula, wife and niece of Claudius, mother of Nero. Secured Nero's adoption, held the title Augusta, appeared on imperial coinage, and was murdered by Nero in 59.

Agrivoltaics

Agrivoltaics, also called agrophotovoltaics or dual-use solar, is a land-use arrangement combining crops, forage, or livestock with solar photovoltaic panels to produce food and electricity from the same land.

Ağrı

Ağrı is a province in northeastern Turkey on the Iran border, named after Mount Ağrı (5,137 m, Turkey's highest peak). Also historically Şorbulak, Karakilise, Karaköse, and Ararat; capital at 1,640 m; economy based on farming and sheep herding; ranked 81st in SEGE-2025.

Oct 20, 2026

Agrobacterium

Agrobacterium, a Rhizobiaceae soil bacterium genus also placed in Rhizobium by some taxonomies; A. tumefaciens causes crown gall via Ti plasmid T-DNA transfer and is the standard tool for plant genetic transformation.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Rhizobium radiobacter), a soil bacterium causing crown gall via Ti plasmid T-DNA transfer through a VirB/VirD4 type IV secretion system, is the leading vector for plant genetic transformation and CRISPR delivery.

Agrochemical

Agrochemical: general term for chemicals used in agriculture, including pesticides, fertilizers, and plant growth regulators. Global pesticide use reached 3.92 million tonnes of active ingredients in 2024; IPM and biopesticides reduce dependence.

Agrocybe

Agrocybe (Fayod 1889) is a genus of Agaricales mushroom fungi, type species A. praecox, now in Agrocybaceae; ringed, large-spored species were split off to Cyclocybe in 2014.

Agrofert

Agrofert is a Prague-based Czech holding company spanning agriculture, food processing, chemicals, and forestry, founded by Andrej Babiš in 1993 and employing more than 28,000 people.

Agroforestry

Agroforestry systems (agrisilvicultural, silvopastoral, agrosilvopastoral) deliberately integrate trees with crops and/or livestock; found on over 43% of global agricultural land, they sequester carbon, improve soil health, and buffer climate extremes.

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc.

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. is an American agricultural technology company based in Pennsylvania that sells post-harvest produce treatments, most notably the ripening-inhibiting SmartFresh line, and went private in 2023.

Agroha Mound

Agroha Mound (Agrodaka) is a 125-acre archaeological mound in Hisar district, Haryana, a centrally protected site occupied from the 4th century BCE to the 14th century CE, excavated by Rodgers (1888-89), Srivastava (1938-39), Haryana state (1978-81), and the ASI (2025).

Sep 29, 2026

Agroinfiltration

Agroinfiltration is a plant biotechnology method that injects Agrobacterium carrying a binary vector into leaves for transient expression, used in functional genomics and rapid protein production.

Agron of Lydia

Agron of Lydia is the legendary founder of the Heraclid dynasty, named by Herodotus as the first of the Heracleidai to become king of Sardis.

Agrona Linea

Agrona Linea is a 2,300-km linea, an elongated tectonic fracture-belt feature on Venus at 40°N, 280°E, IAU-named in 2006 for the Welsh goddess of slaughter, associated with the coronae Emegen and Blathnat.

Agronejo

Agronejo is a Brazilian sertanejo subgenre emerging around 2021 that celebrates agribusiness and rural life, fusing sertanejo with funk and electronic rhythms; by 2023 it was Brazil's most-listened genre.

Agronomy

Agronomy: the agricultural science applying biology, chemistry, soil and water science, genetics, and economics to field crops like wheat, rice, corn, and soybean; rooted in 19th-century chemistry under Justus von Liebig and now spanning water efficiency and precision agriculture.

Agropine synthesis reductase

Agropine synthesis reductase is a reductase encoded by the mas1' gene on Agrobacterium Ti and Ri plasmids that converts deoxyfructosylglutamine to mannopine in transformed plant cells.

Agropyron

Agropyron (crested wheatgrasses) is a genus of perennial Triticeae grasses, Poaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa, with 13 accepted species, base chromosome number x=7, and P-genome-based circumscription.

Oct 20, 2026

Agropyron cristatum

Agropyron cristatum, crested wheatgrass, is a cool-season C3 perennial bunchgrass native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa, widely seeded in North America since the 1930s for forage and revegetation, but invasive in native prairie and linked to reduced soil carbon and diversity.