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gelrite

gelrite noun: a gellan gum used in place of agar.

Noun

gelrite (uncountable)

  1. A gellan gum used in place of agar.
    • Osmotic treatment medium: a modified MS medium was used as the basal media and supplemented with Murashige and Skoog micro and macronutrients, 12% (w/v) sucrose (0.368 M), 10 mg/L of 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP), 40 mg/L adenine free-base, and 2.5 g/L gelrite (Malik and Saxena, 1992; Cabrera-Ponce et...2015 July 28, Aarón Barraza et al., “The Phaseolus vulgaris PvTRX1h gene regulates plant hormone biosynthesis in embryogenic callus from common bean”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI

Origin of gelrite

Brand name, presumably from gel right.

Questions about gelrite

What does gelrite mean?
Gelrite means a gellan gum used in place of agar.
What part of speech is gelrite?
Gelrite is a noun.

Words near gelrite in the dictionary

  1. gelotophobic
  2. gelotophobics
  3. Gelphie
  4. Gelpi
  5. Gelpis
  6. gelrite
  7. gels
  8. gelsemia
  9. gelsemic acid
  10. gelsemine
  11. gelseminic

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