- 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 ...
Able to use sunlight energy to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Nearly all plants, most algae and some bacteria are photosynthetic.
Industry:Biotechnology
Abnormal structure or number of chromosomes; includes deficiency, duplication, inversion, translocation, aneuploidy, polyploidy, or any other change from the normal pattern.
Industry:Biotechnology
Absence or insufficiency of some factor needed for normal growth and development.
Industry:Biotechnology
Active constituents of pyrethrum (<i>Tanacetum cinerariifolium</i>) flowers, used as insecticides.
Industry:Biotechnology
Adapting plants to outdoor conditions by gradually withholding water, lowering the temperature, increasing light intensity, or reducing the nutrient supply. The hardening-off process conditions plants for survival when transplanted outdoors. The term is also used for gradual acclimatization to <i>in vivo</i> conditions of plants grown <i>in vitro</i>, e.g., gradual decrease in humidity.
Industry:Biotechnology
Adding nutrients or oxygen to increase microbial breakdown of pollutants.
Industry:Biotechnology
Addition of a restriction enzyme to a DNA sample under particular conditions or for a limited period, such that only a proportion of the target sites in any individual molecule are cleaved. Partial digests are often performed to give an overlapping collection of DNA fragments for use in the construction of a gene bank.
Industry:Biotechnology
Additive allelic effects summed across all the loci that contribute to genetic variation in a quantitative trait.
Industry:Biotechnology
