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Established in October 1945 with the objective of eliminating hunger and improving nutrition and standards of living by increasing agricultural productivity, FAO coordinates the efforts of governments and technical agencies in programs for developing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and ...
Asexual propagation of many new plants (ramets) from an individual (ortet); all have the same genotype.
Industry:Biotechnology
Assay of the number or percent of living cells or plants in a population that have been given a specific treatment; such as ascertaining cell viability after cryopreservation treatment, or for seeds.
Industry:Biotechnology
Association of non-polar groups with each other when present in aqueous solutions because of their insolubility in water.
Industry:Biotechnology
Autotrophy is the capacity of an organism to use light as the sole energy source in the synthesis of organic material from inorganic elements or compounds. Autotrophic organisms include green photosynthesizing plants and some photosynthetic bacteria. <i>cf </i> heterotrophy.
Industry:Biotechnology
Backcross to the recessive parental type, or a cross between genetically unknown individuals and a fully recessive tester to determine whether an individual in question is heterozygous or homozygous for a certain allele. It is also used as a test for linkage, i.e., to estimate recombination fraction.
Industry:Biotechnology
Bacteria harbouring temperate (non-virulent, lysogenic) bacteriophages.
Industry:Biotechnology
Bacterial, fungal or algal micro-organism accidentally introduced into a culture or culture medium. Contaminant may overgrow the plant cells and consequently inhibit their growth. Working under aseptic conditions with a rigorous exclusion of potential contaminants must be practised in plant tissue culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
