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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 ...
A term used to indicate a persistent change in the properties of a culture's behaviour (e.g., altered morphology, chromosome constitution, virus susceptibility, nutritional requirements, proliferative capacity, etc.). The term should always be qualified by a precise description of the change which has occurred in the culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
A test based on the use of a suspected viral carrier which is grafted to an indicator plant. If symptoms appear in the indicator plant, the viral assay is positive.
Industry:Biotechnology
A test or assay used to determine the presence of an organism, substance or nucleic acid sequence alteration.
Industry:Biotechnology
A thimblelike mass of cells covering and protecting the apical meristem of a root.
Industry:Biotechnology
A tissue culture containing meristematic dome tissue without adjacent leaf primordia or stem tissue. The term may also imply the culture of meristemoidal regions of plants, or meristematic growth in culture.
Industry:Biotechnology
A tissue or group of tissues that constitute a morphologically and functionally distinct part of an organism.
Industry:Biotechnology
A toxic chemical product that kills harmful organisms (e.g., insecticides, fungicide, weedicides, rodenticides).
Industry:Biotechnology
A toxin produced by a bacterium, such as Bt toxin by <i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i>.
Industry:Biotechnology
