- 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 ...
Steam cooking of milled grain, a process that increases the surface area of the starch and converts the original mash to a material with a gel-like consistency.
Industry:Biotechnology
Sterile bottom half of a Petri dish used for preparing explants with a cork borer.
Industry:Biotechnology
Storage of ova, sperm or fertilized embryos outside their original source. Almost invariably this means cryopreservation in liquid nitrogen.
Industry:Biotechnology
Strains of organisms that are genetically identical; completely homozygous.
Industry:Biotechnology
Strains of yeast, often <i>Saccharomyces</i> <i>cerevisiae,</i> that are used in the production of beer.
Industry:Biotechnology
Stress resulting from living organisms which can harm plants, such as viruses, fungi, bacteria, parasitic weeds and harmful insects. <i>cf</i> abiotic stress.
Industry:Biotechnology
