Whole plants from adult tissue.Whole plants from adult tissue A stumbling block stum·bling block n. An obstacle or impediment. stumbling block Noun any obstacle that prevents something from taking place or progressing Noun 1. in applying biotechnology to crops has been the limited number of types of plants in which whole plants can be regenerated from somatic somatic /so·mat·ic/ (so-mat´ik) 1. pertaining to or characteristic of the soma or body. 2. pertaining to the body wall in contrast to the viscera. so·mat·ic adj. (not seed) cells. Scientists recently reported two important additions to the list of successfully regenerated plants. Soy plants are now being regenerated by researchers at United AgriSeeds, Inc., in Champaign, Ill. And guayule gua·yu·le n. A shrub (Parthenium argentatum) of the southwest United States and Mexico whose sap was considered a potential source of natural rubber during World War II. rubber plants are being regenerated by David N. Radin of the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Irvine. Radin says his new procedure may hasten the development of guayule as a domestic natural-rubber industry. |
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