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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 ...
Technique mainly used for virus or mycoplasma elimination. Plants are exposed to elevated temperatures as a treatment. Thermotherapy is used alone or in combination with meristem culture or meristem tip culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
Term commonly used to describe the ability of an organism to withstand a stress, a force or an effect of a disease, or its agent or a toxic substance.
Industry:Biotechnology
Term describing the occurrence of an event at least once every 24 hours. <i>cf</i> circadian.
Industry:Biotechnology
Term given to a cell culture when the cells comprising the culture possess nuclei containing chromosome numbers other than the diploid number.
Industry:Biotechnology
That component of biodiversity that is relevant to food and agriculture production. The term agrobiodiversity encompasses within-species, species and ecosystem diversity.
Industry:Biotechnology
That component of biodiversity that is relevant to food and agriculture production. The term agrobiodiversity encompasses within-species, species and ecosystem diversity.
Industry:Biotechnology
That phase of the plant life cycle that bears the gamete producing organs; the cells have <i>n</i> chromosomes. In angiosperms, the pollen grain is the male gametophyte and the embryo sac is the female gametophyte.
Industry:Biotechnology
That portion of a gene which directly specifies the amino acid sequence of its protein product. Non-coding sequences of genes include control regions, such as promoters, operators and terminators, as well as the intron sequences of certain eukaryotic genes.
Industry:Biotechnology
