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A substance which accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being consumed in the process. Enzymes are catalysts.
Industry:Agriculture
An index of taxonomic literature arranged by taxa so as to provide ready reference to at least the most important taxonomic references to the taxon involved.
Industry:Agriculture
An enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of hydrogen peroxide to water and the oxidation by hydrogen peroxide of alcohol to aldehydes.
Industry:Agriculture
Insect of the species Nymphula depunctalis whose larva lives in a case consisting of a piece of rolled rice leaf.
Industry:Agriculture
A small one-seeded dry indehiscent fruit (as in grasses) with a thin membranous pericarp adhering so closely to the seed that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body forming a single grain (wheat and barley). In rice, brown rice is the caryopsis.
Industry:Agriculture
An outgrowth on a seed developed by proliferation of integumentary tissue adjacent to the micropyle.
Industry:Agriculture
A fixative consisting of 6 parts 95% ethanol, 3 parts chloroform, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
Industry:Agriculture
One of the floral units that compose the fruit. A simple pistil or one of the structures of a compound pistil.
Industry:Agriculture
1). Transport proteins that bind specific solutes and undergo conformational change in order to transport the solute across the membrane. 2). A material necessary to hold pesticide and fertilizer elements in a form suitable for application.
Industry:Agriculture
