Acronyms and Glossary of Rice Related Terminology Updated November 27, 2002

F

F Fertile

F1 First filial generation

F2 Second filial generation

Fn nth filial generation

FA Fulvic acid

FADINAP Fertilizer Advisory, Development and Information Network for Asia and the Pacific

FAME Fatty acid methyl esters

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)

FARMI-VISCA Farm and Resource Management Institute--Visayas State College of Agriculture (Philippines)

FAVD Favorable rainfed village dummy

fb Followed by

FB Flat bed dryer

FC Forage chopper

FCCT See CFTC

FCRI Field Crops Research Institute (Thailand)

FCS Free choice screening test

FCSSP Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines

FDC Spikelet fertility depression coefficient

FDD Farm ditch density

FDP Fructose 1,6-diphosphatase

FE Field emergence

FEBTC Far East Bank and Trust Company (Philippines)

FED Fonds Europeen de Developpement (European Development Fund)

FF 1) First flowering

2) Ford Foundation

FFHC Freedom From Hunger Campaign (FAO)

FFSM Federation des Fondations pour la Sante Mondiale (Federation of World Health Foundations, Headquarters: Switzerland)

FFTRI Fruit and Food Technology Research Institute (South Asia)

FIDA Fonds International de Developpement Agricole (International Fund for Agricultural Development) (UN, France)

FIEWS Food Information and Early Warning System (FAO, UN)

FIFABE Fikambanana Fampandrosoana ny Lemak'i Betsiboka (Association for the Development of the Plain of Betsiboka, Madagascar)

FINIDA Finnish International Development Assistance

FIPA Federation Internationale des Producteurs Agricoles (International Federation of Agricultural Producers; also IFAP)

FISH Fluorescent in situ hybridization

FITC Foundation for International Technological Cooperation (Washington, DC)

FL Flowering

FMDN Farm Machinery Development Network

FMG Malagasy francs

FNRI Food and Nutrition Research Institute (Philippines)

FOFIFA Foibe Fikarohana Ampiharina amin-ny Fampandrosoana ny Ambanivohitra (Centre National de la Recherche Applique au Developpement Rural, National Center for Applied Research Rural Development, Madagascar)

FOPPS Farm Operations, Plant Protection, and (Pest) Surveillance (IRRI)

FORI Forest Research Institute (UPLB, Philippines)

FP Flood-Prone Rice Program (IRRI)

FPRDI Forest Products Research and Development Institute (UPLB, Philippines)

FPRL Forest Products Research Laboratory (UK)

FR 1) Fault report

2) Farm reservoir

FRT Floating rototiller

FS 1) False smut

2) Financial statement

FSR Farming system research

FSRI Farming Systems Research Institute (Thailand)

FSSRI Farming Systems and Soil Resources Institute (UPLB, Philippines)

fw Fresh weight

FYM Farmyard manure

G

G 1) Good

2) Granules

GA3 Gibberellic acid

GAAS Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China)

GASGA 1) Group for Assistance on the Storage of the Grains in Africa

2) Group for Assistance on Systems Relating to Grain After Harvest

GAIM Global analysis, interpretation, and modelling

GAWI German Corporation for Technical Assistance to Developing Countries

GB 1) Gene Bank

2) Germplasm Bank

3) Great Britain

GBIRET Germplasm Bank Information Retrieval

GBPU G.B. Pant University (India); see GPUA&T

GC Gel consistency

GC7 Portable grain cleaner

GCA General combining ability

GCDE Germplasm conservation, dissemination, and evaluation

GCM General circulation model

GCTE Global change and terrestrial ecosystems

GD Growth duration

GDP Gross domestic product

GxE Genotype x environment interaction

GEF Global environment facility

GELCON Gel consistency

GELTEMP Gel temperature

GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System (Kenya)

GERDAT Groupement d'Etudes et de Recherches pour le Developpement de l'Agronomie Tropicale (France)

GEU Genetic evaluation and utilization

GF Grain filling

GFD Grain filling duration

GFR Grain filling rate

GH Greenhouse

GHC Green hairy caterpillar

GIDA International Group for Agricultural Development in Latin America

GISh Genome in situ hybridization

GL Generalized Leontief

GLH Green leafhopper

GM 1) Gall midge

2) Green manure

GMD Geometric mean diameter

GMi Mild stunting and yellowing, slightly profuse tillering, erect growth habit

GMo Moderate stunting and yellowing, slightly profuse tillering, spreading growth habit

GOC General operating costs

GP Germination percentage; germination in polythelene glycol solution

GPS Global positioning system

GPUA&T G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (India)

GRC Genetic Resources Center (IRRI)

GRL Grain length

GRS Grain shape

GSV Grassy stunt virus

GT Gelatinization temperature

GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Germany)

GW Grain weight