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ex·plant

 (ĕk-splănt′)
tr.v. ex·plant·ed, ex·plant·ing, ex·plants
To remove (living tissue) from the natural site of growth and place in a medium for culture.
n. (ĕks′plănt′)
Explanted tissue.


ex′plan·ta′tion n.
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explant

(ɛksˈplɑːnt)
vb
(Biology) to transfer (living tissue) from its natural site to a new site or to a culture medium
n
(Biology) a piece of tissue treated in this way
ˌexplanˈtation n
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ex•plant

(v. ɛksˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt; n. ˈɛksˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt)

v.t.
1. to take (living material) from an animal or plant for placement in a culture medium.
n.
2. a piece of explanted tissue.
[1910–15]
ex`plan•ta′tion, n.
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explant


Past participle: explanted
Gerund: explanting

Imperative
explant
explant
Present
I explant
you explant
he/she/it explants
we explant
you explant
they explant
Preterite
I explanted
you explanted
he/she/it explanted
we explanted
you explanted
they explanted
Present Continuous
I am explanting
you are explanting
he/she/it is explanting
we are explanting
you are explanting
they are explanting
Present Perfect
I have explanted
you have explanted
he/she/it has explanted
we have explanted
you have explanted
they have explanted
Past Continuous
I was explanting
you were explanting
he/she/it was explanting
we were explanting
you were explanting
they were explanting
Past Perfect
I had explanted
you had explanted
he/she/it had explanted
we had explanted
you had explanted
they had explanted
Future
I will explant
you will explant
he/she/it will explant
we will explant
you will explant
they will explant
Future Perfect
I will have explanted
you will have explanted
he/she/it will have explanted
we will have explanted
you will have explanted
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Future Continuous
I will be explanting
you will be explanting
he/she/it will be explanting
we will be explanting
you will be explanting
they will be explanting
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been explanting
you have been explanting
he/she/it has been explanting
we have been explanting
you have been explanting
they have been explanting
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been explanting
you will have been explanting
he/she/it will have been explanting
we will have been explanting
you will have been explanting
they will have been explanting
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been explanting
you had been explanting
he/she/it had been explanting
we had been explanting
you had been explanting
they had been explanting
Conditional
I would explant
you would explant
he/she/it would explant
we would explant
you would explant
they would explant
Past Conditional
I would have explanted
you would have explanted
he/she/it would have explanted
we would have explanted
you would have explanted
they would have explanted
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References in periodicals archive ?
For this reason, the aseptic procedure needs to be able to control contamination without oxidising the explants.
This damage led to ovarian explants that exhibited lower cell number, fewer proliferating cells, increased cell death and the loss of germ cell number, (https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/dex383/4831088) according to the study .
Therefore, the hypothesis of the present study was that LPS modulates prolactin secretion from the anterior pituitary explants collected from saline- and endotoxin-treated ewes in the follicular phase of the estrous cycle, and this action can be dependent upon the presence of LBP.
Different protocols of surface sterilisation may vary with the type of chosen plant for culture and selected explants to use.
The results showed that various optimal parameters such as 100 mg L-1 of kanamycin concentration for selection of transformants, 2 d of pre-cultivation time, 100 umol L-1 of acetosyringone concentration, 15 min of infection time and 2 d of co-cultivation time were obtained using cotyledonary node explants. The rooting frequency observed on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 0.2 mg L-1 indole acetic acid and 400 mg L-1 cefotaxime was found to be 100.00%.
A protocol using droplet vitrification technique (Panis, Piette, & Swennen, 2005) was successfully performed using shoot tips as explants (Santos et al., 2015).
Explants were cultured at 37AdegC in a humidified incubator with 5% CO2.
Embryonic callus and bulblet induction medium: Bulb scale explants were transferred to MS (Murashige and Skoog, 1962), Orchimax (Duchefa Biochemie B.V.
The regenerated protocorms from the Phalaenopsis Classic Spotted Pink hybrid were used as explants in this stage; they presented conical shape and green color, and were generated through asymbiotic germination; part of the protocorms was used at the 80th DASI and the other part was used at the 120th DASI.
Regeneration of plants from transformed explants is difficult in genetic transformation protocols, and for recalcitrant species like common bean is one of the unsolved aspects (Liu, Park, Kanno, & Kameya, 2005; Amugune et al., 2011; Collado et al., 2015).
(2005) who tested the 4-minute immersion system every 5 hours and different plant regulators and obtained positive results on the multiplication of the explants, as well as, Debnath (2017), who concluded that the temporary immersion system is efficient for the propagation of this species.