(n.) A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.
Example Sentences:
(1) In earlier studies with the SV40-transformed hamster cell line Elona two different types of DNA amplification could be identified: (i) Bidirectional overreplication of chromosomally integrated SV40 DNA expanding into the flanking cellular sequences ("onion skin" type) and (ii) highly efficient synthesis of extremely large head-to-tail concatemers containing exclusively SV40 DNA ("rolling circle" type).
(2) The compound is a weak chromosome breaker in onion root tips and in Chinese hamster cells.
(3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(4) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(5) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(6) The insecticides did not translocate into the edible parts of the vegetables but were present in the root system of onion and lettuce.
(7) Three root crops (radishes, carrots, and onions) were grown in two soils, each treated with a mixture of FireMaster BP-6 (PBB) and 14C-PBB to achieve final concentrations of 100 ppm and 100 ppb.
(8) At comparable concentrations, growing cultures of Escherichia coli were as susceptible to garlic, but apparently more resistant to onion, than were those of S. typhimurium.
(9) Administration of cortisone, heparin, or dicoumarin did nothing to prevent DIC, and epsilon-aminocaproic acid, acetylsalicylic acid,or an onion-rich diet tended to increase its incidence.
(10) Di(n-propyl) disulfide, a major onion oil component, inhibited neither lipoxygenase nor promotion.
(11) Add the onion and sweet potatoes to the pan, along with a pinch of salt.
(12) The major type IV allergens incriminated were metals, onion and garlic.
(13) The rhizophere and phyllosphere of some plants contain only 2 to 4 yeast species (onion, hop, wild apple).
(14) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
(15) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
(16) In a casserole over a medium heat, fry the onions in the oil and butter for 5 minutes, to soften.
(17) It was concluded that exposure to onion taste in mother's milk was responsible for an initial preference for onion diet.
(18) However, onions significantly increased all measures in heartburn subjects, compared with the no-onion condition, and compared with normals under the onion condition.
(19) All test organisms were inhibited by garlic juice, whilst onion and shallot juice showed no effect upon gram negative bacteria.
(20) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
Turnip
Definition:
(v. t.) The edible, fleshy, roundish, or somewhat conical, root of a cruciferous plant (Brassica campestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twelve eighteen-month-old calves contracted nitrate poisoning as a result of overfeeding with turnips.
(2) Experiments involving one of the clear pathogenicity mutants indicated that the recovery of mutant cells from turnip seedlings 24 hr after inoculation was lower than for the wild type.
(3) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
(4) The experiments described in this paper and the following one establish the sequence of the 3'-OH terminal 159 nucleotides of turnip yellow mosaic virus RNA.
(5) The pyrimidine analogues 2-thiouracil, 2-thiouridine, 6-azauracil and 6-azauridine all inhibited the synthesis of turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) and increased the synthesis of empty virus protein shells in infected Chinese cabbage leaf discs.
(6) Sucrose gradient centrifugation of heat-denatured RNA of turnip yellow mosaic virus permitted the isolation of five RNA classes with molecular weights ranging from 2.0 to 0.25 X 10(6).
(7) The belladonna mottle virus is more closely related to eggplant mosaic virus than to turnip yellow mosaic virus, the type member of this group, as evident from the sequence homologies of 57 and 32%, respectively.
(8) The genome organization is very similar to that of carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(9) In contrast, a variety of cyanobacterial cytochrome c-553's and a cyanobacterial plastocyanin could not be covalently linked to turnip cytochrome f.
(10) In several cases, upper leaves contained replicating viral DNA which was able to incite CaMV symptoms on turnip plants.
(11) Turnip-yellow-mosaic virus, with its stable, highly spherical and monodisperse character, was chosen as a suitable model substance with which to test hydrodynamic theories of transport.
(12) Turnip leaves infected with the aphid transmissible isolate of cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV Cabb B-JI) showed two types of virus-containing inclusion bodies (IBs), which differed morphologically and in their protein composition when analyzed by immunogold labeling of ultrathin sections.
(13) Full-length dsDNA clones that encode the genomes of two Australian turnip yellow mosaic isolates, TYMV-BL and TYMV-CL have been constructed.
(14) But if you want to stay in the area, the king of Turkish ocakbasi restaurants that dominate this part of town is Gokyuzu & Kervan , serving immaculately grilled lamb, meze salads and turnip juice.
(15) Apparently turnip+ is not a structural gene for PKC because Drosophila PKC genes map elsewhere in the genome.
(16) Sub-cellular fractions, isolated from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV)-infected turnip protoplasts, are capable of synthesising CaMV DNA in vitro on an endogenous template and of reverse transcribing oligo dT-primed cowpea mosaic virus RNA.
(17) Gene I product of cauliflower mosaic virus was immunodetected in a cell-wall-enriched fraction from infected turnip leaves in addition to its detection in viroplasms and replication complexes.
(18) The Drosophila mutant turnip was initially isolated based on poor learning performance (Quinn, W.G., Sziber, P.P., and Booker, R. (1979) Nature 277, 212-214).
(19) In the present paper we present the amino acid sequences around the histidine residues of all four turnip peroxidases, i. e. of 25 residues around the histidine proximal to heme, and 34 residues around the probably distally located histidine, and compare them with the histidine-containing sequences of the complete amino acid sequence of horseradish isoperoxidase C. Substitutions of residues are rare close to these histidines, but more abundant with greater distances.
(20) A fragment representing the 3'-terminal 'tRNA-like' region of turnip yellow mosaic (TYM) virus RNA has been purified following incubation of intact TYM virus RNA with Escherichia coli 'RNase P'.