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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 ...
Slowly discharge; leak liquid material (exudate such as tannins or oxidized polyphenols) through pores or cuts, or by diffusion into the medium. In some woody plant species, exudation is associated with a lethal browning of explants. <i>
Industry:Biotechnology
Small basic proteins that replace the histones in the chromosomes of some sperm cells.
Industry:Biotechnology
Small bodies, described by J. Belling, that are identified by their characteristic size and linear arrangement along a chromosome.
Industry:Biotechnology
Small granule to which a cilium or flagellum is attached. <i>cf</i> kinetosome.
Industry:Biotechnology
Small particles used as a support material for cells, and particularly mammalian cells, which are too fragile to be pumped and stirred as bacterial cells are in a large-scale culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
Small room or cabinet for inoculation (of tissue or micro-organism cultures) operations, often with a current of sterile air to carry contaminants away from the work area.
Industry:Biotechnology
Small tubers (5-15 mm in diameter) formed on shoot cultures or cuttings of tuber-forming crops, such as potato.
Industry:Biotechnology
Soluble proteins required for the initiation of translation.
Industry:Biotechnology
Soluble proteins that are required for polypeptide chain elongation.
Industry:Biotechnology
Solutions having the same osmotic potential; the same molar concentration. For protoplasts to survive, the medium they are suspended in must be isotonic with them.
Industry:Biotechnology