0 a long, narrow, flat part of some plants, such as beans and peas, that contains the seeds and usually has a thick skin: --
1 a long, narrow container that is attached to an aircraft for carrying engines, weapons, extra fuel, etc.: --
2 a group of sea mammals such as whales or dolphins --
3 abbreviation for print on demand: a way of producing books or other documents in which copies are printed only after they have been ordered --
5 written abbreviation for payment on delivery --
The last collection took place when the pods were considered completely mature (dark-brown pods).
For shelling percentage, 200 g of groundnut pods, and 10 maize ears, randomly sampled, were shelled per treatment plot.
The total produce of maize cobs and pods of any intercrops from each plot were weighed and subsamples taken to determine oven-dry grain weight.
The variation in number of -owers or pods per in-orescence has been investigated by several researchers who obtained inconsistent results.
Occasionally it contains pods (greater than 1 cm) of black sandstone enriched in carbon and pyrite.
There was a two-fold variation between genotypes in the number of pods per plant, with up to 400-fold variation within clones.
Variation in pod counts within clones ranged up to 500-fold.
Some of the conclusions run counter to common plantation practice such as leaving damaged and rotting pods amongst the cocoa trees.
