- Industry: Agriculture
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1). Any technique that manipulates living organisms (or parts of organisms) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific uses. An applied biological science--e.g., recombinant DNA technology. 2). The various industrial processes that involve the use of biological systems; the collection of microbial and other biochemical processes carried out on an industrial scale. It includes, but is not limited to, the industrial aspects of genetic engineering. Other areas of biotechnology deal with fermentation technology (antibiotics), hybridoma technology (monoclonal antibodies), and agricultural technology (plant and animal transformation).
Industry:Agriculture
A method of pest control that relies on beneficial enemies to reduce pest populations to tolerable levels. It involves human manipulation of natural enemies of insects.
Industry:Agriculture
The action of natural enemies--parasites, parasitoids, predators, and pathogens--in maintaining another organism's density at a lower level than it would occur in their absence. If control is facilitated by man, it is called applied biological control. If not, it is called natural biological control.
Industry:Agriculture
Characteristics of the plant that influence the health, vitality, and quality of harvested products.
Industry:Agriculture
Loss of nitrogen from the soil due to microbial activity. Microbial reduction of oxidized inorganic nitrogen compounds serving as nominal electron acceptors in anaerobic respiratory pathways lead to nitrogen losses to the atmosphere as N2 or N2O.
Industry:Agriculture
Process by which DNA molecules are propelled into a recipient cell using coated microprojectiles shot from a 'gene gun.' The method of propulsion may vary and ranges from electric discharge to helium blast.
Industry:Agriculture
