- Industria: Agriculture
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A plant that is unable to set seed or units when selfed, crossed, or grafted because of structural, physiological, or ontogenic reasons.
Industry:Agriculture
Continuous breeding of genetically related individuals resulting in decrease in reproductive capacity.
Industry:Agriculture
The interbreeding of closely related individuals occurring naturally (as in a closed population), or as a deliberately chosen system of breeding and serving especially to preserve and fix desirable characters of and to eliminate unfavorable characters from a suitably selected stock but tending to effect an unwanted decline (as in size, vigor, or fertility) through the fixation of undesirable and often recessive characters when the initial stock is any way defective.
Industry:Agriculture
A nearly homozygous breeding line produced by continued self-fertilization.
Industry:Agriculture
An individual resulting from the mating of closely related parents or selfing.
Industry:Agriculture
Selection for phenotypes (traits) expressed at the cellular or callus level which usually possess genetic changes that control the trait.
Industry:Agriculture
Latin: meaning, outside the living cell. In a test tube or other artificial medium. Denotes the growth of explants in glass or other artificial environment.
Industry:Agriculture
A technique used for hybridization of cytological (chromosome) preparations with the labeled DNA probes. The method couples molecular biology, biochemistry, and cytology. Usually the expression of a gene (as RNA) or the location of target DNA (for example, in a chromosome) is detected by a molecular probe. The probe can be labeled by a variety of biochemical methods.
Industry:Agriculture
