Research Domain
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 16:02
The growth of a single species or strain of an organism in the absence of any other living species or strain.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 16:02
A non-feeding and usually inactive stage in insect development which occurs between the larval and adult stages.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 16:01
With a depression in the center.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 16:01
A small wheel that turns by a belt to transmit or apply power.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 16:00
Turning the soil into a muddy or watertight paste through secondary tillage.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:59
A soil whose structure has been mechanically destroyed, allowing the soil to run together when saturated with water. A soil that has been puddled is usually in a massive nonstructural state.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:58
Having a fuzzy surface; specifically, covered with fine soft short hairs.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:57
Apparent resistance which results from transitory characters in potentially susceptible host plants. Types of pseudoresistance are host evasion, induced resistance, and escape.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:55
Plants which prefer or tolerate sand, particularly fine to medium sand, as a habitat.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:55
To cut off what is not needed, such as to prune tillers so that the number of tillers in each entry is uniform.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:54
An in vitro technique of producing somatic hybrids between two cultivars, species, or genera. Protoplast fusion provides the unique opportunity to exploit cytoplasmic variability in two parental lines.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:53
The isolation and culture of these protoplasts in nutrient medium to form callus and to regenerate plants.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:53
Plant cell from which the cell wall has been removed, usually by enzymatic process.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:52
That portion of cellular tissue active in life processes.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:49
Maturation of the pistils (female part) before the stamen (male part).
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:49
The anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:48
The amount of protein in a living organism based on the analysis for total n. The percent protein is computed by multiplying the percent n by 6.25.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:46
A biopolymer consisting of many different amino acids linked by peptide bonds. Proteins can be more than 100 amino acids long and are very complex in structure.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:32
Lying flat on the ground.
Contributed by rkmp.labs on Mon, 2011-07-11 15:31
The first two-keeled bract and bladeless rudimentary leaf at the base of the main culm. A membranous structure between the shoot and stem in grasses. Morphologically it is the first leaf of the developing shoot.