(a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.
(a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.
Example Sentences:
(1) In agamous-1, stamens to petals; in apetala2-1, sepals to leaves and petals to staminoid petals; in apetala3-1, petals to sepals and stamens to carpels; in pistillata-1, petals to sepals.
(2) The spatial pattern of AGAMOUS expression remains unaltered in superman flowers as compared to wild-type flowers.
(3) To test this, the expression patterns of AGAMOUS and APETALA3 were examined in superman flowers.
(4) The paper is concerned with the first experience of intracavitary gamma-therapy of uterine cancer using the AGAM unit ensuring simultaneous delivery of Cs-137 sources along 3 channels.
(5) Essentially additive phenotypes are observed in superman agamous and superman apetala2 double mutants.
(6) Mutations in the homeotic gene agamous of the plant Arabidopsis cause the transformation of the floral sex organs.
(7) Mutations in the AGAMOUS (AG) gene cause transformations in two adjacent whorls of the Arabidopsis flower.
(8) These phenotypes are consistent with predictions from the genetic model, show that expression of AGAMOUS is sufficient to provide ectopic C function, and demonstrate that the structure of flowers can be manipulated in a predictable manner by altering the expression of a single regulatory gene.
(9) The agamous gene therefore probably encodes a transcription factor that regulates genes determining stamen and carpel development in wild-type flowers.
(10) The predicted products of floral homeotic genes, AGAMOUS (AG) from Arabidopsis thaliana and DEFICIENS A (DEF A) from Antirrhinum majus, have been shown previously to share strong sequence similarity with transcription factors from humans (SRF) and yeast (MCM1).
(11) We propose that the AP1 and AP2 gene products act in concert with the product of the agamous (AG) locus to establish a determinate floral meristem, whereas other homeotic gene products are required for cells to differentiate correctly according to their position.
(12) Similar regions are found in other proteins, such as ARG80, Deficiens and Agamous.
(13) ARG80 and Agamous exhibit similar DNA binding specificities but do not interact with either STE12 or p62TCF.
(14) Five genes with homology to the floral homeotic genes deficiens of Antirrhinum and agamous of Arabidopsis were isolated from tomato.
(15) To test the genetic model, we have generated transgenic tobacco plants that ectopically express the AGAMOUS gene from Brassica napus, which is necessary for the C function.
(16) The second maturation division starts immediately after the completion of the first division and is morphologically similar to agamic mitosis of the micronuclei of D. nasutum.
(17) We characterized the distribution of AGAMOUS (AG) RNA during early flower development in Arabidopsis.
(18) LEAFY expression procedes expression of the homeotic genes AGAMOUS and APETALA3, which specify organ identify within the flower.
(19) Cloning and sequence analysis of agamous suggest that it encodes a protein with a high degree of sequence similarity to the DNA-binding region of transcription factors from yeast and humans and to the product of a homeotic gene from Antirrhinum.
(20) Further, the phenotypes of multiple mutant lines indicate that the wild-type products of the AGAMOUS and APETALA2 genes interact antagonistically.
Agaric
Definition:
(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
(n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(2) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(3) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(5) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(6) Table I shows the effect of increasing concentrations of propolis in tryptose-agar (TA).
(7) In the first assay, we used a simple density separation technique to remove dense neutrophils (PMN) from suspensions of blood and of bone marrow cells prior to culture in semisolid agar.
(8) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(9) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
(10) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(11) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(12) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
(13) All isolates grew on MacConkey agar and produced catalase, oxidase, and urease.
(14) Studies on proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cells in Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) were done on a 1-month-old patient, using the soft-agar bone marrow culture technique.
(15) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(16) Four human and two nonhuman primate cell lines were studied to determine their growth characteristics in soft agar, and for invasive characteristics in a muscle organ culture assay system.
(17) The in vitro susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a new macrolide antibiotic RU-28965, alone and in combination with rifampicin or isoniazid, was studied by the agar dilution method.
(18) In initial experiments a double layer culture system was employed in which target cells in methylcellulose medium were separated from an adherent layer of S17 stromal cells by an agar interface.
(19) Profiles obtained by use of the agar-based screens were used as the basis for evaluating the other methods.
(20) Colony forming ability in soft agar media of peritoneal tumor cells taken after completion of 5-day treatment with NKT-01 was markedly reduced to less than 3%.