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| Terms for subject Environment (23140 entries) |
| banca di geni | gene bank (Storehouses of seeds or vegetative tissue, kept in low humidity and temperature, to help maintain genetic diversity. Sometimes known as seed banks or germ plasm banks. their contents mostly originate from a wide range of primitive strains and wild crop varieties. The International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR), which was established in 1974, promotes the collection, documentation, evaluation, conservation and eventual use of genetic resources of significant plant species. Gene banks are the subject of international controversy because they contain seeds that have mostly been acquired from the developing countries by the industrially rich countries, where they have been used in breeding programmes to develop new strains. Instead of taking decades over a traditional plant breeding programme by fertilization, it is now possible to manipulate directly the genes of plants, creating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which are plants modified to give a higher resistance to disease and improved growth and yields and, therefore, increase the profit of the plant breeder and farmer) | |
| banca di letame | manure bank | |
| banca nazionale del letame | public foundation national manure bank | |
| banchisa | ice pack (Large areas of floating ice, usually occurring in polar seas, consisting of separate pieces that have become massed together) | |
| banchisa costiera | fast ice | |
| banco di ostriche | oyster bank | |
| banco di ostriche | oyster bar (Am.Eng.) | |
| banco di ostriche | oyster bed | |
| banco di ostriche | oyster flat | |
| banco di ostriche | oysterage | |
| bande dello spettro | spectral band (Closely grouped bands of lines characteristic of molecular gases of chemical compounds (spectroscopy)) | |
| bande dello spettro | spectral band | |
| bandicoot a piedi di porco | pig-footed bandicoot | |
| bandicoot-coniglio | dalgite | |
| bandicoot-coniglio | greater bilby | |
| bandicoot-coniglio | rabbit bandicoot | |
| bandicoot-coniglio | rabbit-eared bandicoot | |
| bandicoot-coniglio dalla coda bianca | lesser bilby | |
| bandicoot-coniglio dalla coda bianca | lesser rabbit bandicoot | |
| bandicoot-coniglio dalla coda bianca | lesser rabbit-eared bandicoot |