- 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 ...
Post-trancriptional processes that alter the information encoded in gene transcripts (RNAs).
Industry:Biotechnology
Post-transcriptional addition of a polyadenylic acid tail to the 3´ end of eukaryotic mRNAs. Also called poly-(A) tailing. The adenine-rich 3´ terminal segments is called a poly (A) tail.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pots made from wood pulp and peat, commonly used for transplanting tissue-culture-derived plants into soil medium.
Industry:Biotechnology
Premature germination of the embryo, prior to completion of embryogenesis.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pre-natal stage of a viviparous animal, between the embryonic stage and parturition.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pre-prepared solutions of individual components and used to prepare many different types of media. Certain substances, including Ca and Mg sulphates and phosphates must not be combined until actual medium preparation because insoluble combinations are formed and precipitate.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pressure that a cell wall exerts against the turgor of the cell contents. Wall pressure is equal and opposite to the turgor potential.
Industry:Biotechnology
Pre-treatment solution (e.g., Vitamin C; citric acid) that retards senescence and browning of tissue. It is employed to incubate explants prior to surface sterilization.
Industry:Biotechnology
Primary tissue of a stem or root, bounded externally by the epidermis and internally in the stem by the phloem and in the root by the pericycle.
Industry:Biotechnology
Probe whose response is based on the fluorescence intensity of individual cells or cell components.
Industry:Biotechnology
