- 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 ...
Planting a cell from a suspension culture on a raft of filter paper above a callus tissue piece (nurse tissue). The filter paper serves to prevent tissue union but allows the flow of essential substances from the nurse to the isolated cell. In such culture, a piece of callus is first placed on nutrient agar. Over this tissue is laid a strip of filter paper.
Industry:Biotechnology
Plants having both green and albino tissues. This difference in colour may result from viral infection, nutritional deficiency, or may be under genetic or physiological control.
Industry:Biotechnology
Plasmid-based genes and their products that facilitate the transfer of a plasmid from one bacterium to another.
Industry:Biotechnology
Plastid containing pigments, such a chloroplast, or one in which carotenoids predominate.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pollen of a plant is transferred to the female part of the same plant or another plant with the same genetic makeup. Opposite: cross-pollination.
Industry:Biotechnology
Population(s) of organisms sharing certain characteristics that are not present in other populations of the same species.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pore space between cells, especially typical of leaf tissues.
Industry:Biotechnology
Portion out a nutrient medium into containers, such as test tubes, jars, Erlenmeyer flasks, Petri dishes, etc.
Industry:Biotechnology
