- Industry: Agriculture
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Foreign protein and occasionally complex lipids, carbohydrates, and some nucleic acids, which upon injection into a warm-blooded animal, induce the production of antibodies.
Industry:Agriculture
Strand of DNA or RNA complementary to the sense strand of a gene. Sense and antisense strands anneal in vivo and cause inactivation of the gene's expression.
Industry:Agriculture
A term proposed by Kogan and Ortman to replace nonpreference. It conveys the idea that the plant is avoided as a bad host. A property of the plant that makes it not attractive to some feeding or ovipositing insects.
Industry:Agriculture
A form of apomixis in which the embryo develops from the somatic cells of the nucellus.
Industry:Agriculture
An asexual method of reproduction in which the seed develops without the union of egg and sperm. The resulting embryos have the same genetic constitution as that of the seed parent.
Industry:Agriculture
It could also mean an association between one organism and a metabolic product of another.
Industry:Agriculture
A chemical substance produced by certain microorganisms that retards or inhibits the growth of other microorganisms. Substance that acts to destroy or inhibit the growth of a microbe (e.g., bacteria or fungi).
Industry:Agriculture
A remedy to counteract the toxic effects of a pesticide (e.g., atropine sulfate for carbamate and phosphate poisoning).
Industry:Agriculture
