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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Industry: Agriculture
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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 ...
An embryo-like body developing <i>in vitro</i>. It forms a complete, self-contained platelet with no vascular connection with the callus. The term embryoid is no longer commonly used.
Industry:Biotechnology
An endogenous physiological condition of viable seeds, buds or bulbs that prevents growth even in the presence of otherwise favourable environmental conditions. By some seed physiologists, this is referred to as dormancy.
Industry:Biotechnology
An environment or condition in which molecular oxygen is not available for chemical, physical or biological processes.
Industry:Biotechnology
An environmental or chemical agent characterized by its lethal or sub-lethal stress on growing plants, or portion thereof in culture. A selective agent is mainly used when selection of resistant or tolerant individuals is the research aim.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme bound tightly to the large sub-unit of the ribosome that catalyses the formation of peptide bonds between amino acids during translation.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme encoded by a transposon gene and that catalyses the movement of a DNA sequence to a different site in a DNA molecule, by catalysing the excision of the transposon from one site and its insertion into a new chromosomal site.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme from bacteriophage-T4-infected cells, and that catalyses the joining of duplex DNA molecules and repairs nicks in DNA molecules. The enzyme requires that one of the DNA molecules has a 5´-phosphate group and that the other has a free 3´-hydroxyl group.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme secreted by cells lining the stomach in mammals, and that is responsible for clotting milk.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme that adds nucleotides to the 3´ terminus of DNA molecules.
Industry:Biotechnology
An enzyme that adds phosphate groups to a protein molecule at the sites of serine, threonine or tyrosine residues.
Industry:Biotechnology