Definition of axenic in English:
axenic
adjective eɪˈzɛnɪkāˈzēnik
Botany Relating to or denoting a culture that is free from living organisms other than the species required.
Example sentencesExamples
- Proteinaceous matter released during the growth of an axenic diatom culture contains similar amino acid distributions across size fractions as in Delaware Bay samples.
- Tips of generative shoots excised from flowering beets were the explants used to initiate axenic shoot cultures.
- Experiments that showed a PPFM strain could stimulate growth and development of a leafy liverwort in axenic culture were reported some time ago.
- Primary sporocysts were obtained after overnight axenic culture of miracidia as described.
- Duckweeds also have the advantage that they may be grown in axenic cultures, reproducing vegetatively.
Derivatives
adverb
Botany The cells were fed with ciliates Tetrahymena pyriformis, which were axenically cultured in medium containing 1.0% proteose peptone supplemented with 0.1% yeast extract.
Example sentencesExamples
- ATCC 50230 was grown axenically in seawater enriched with 10% w/v horse serum.
- Rice plants were axenically grown in glass test tubes containing a strip of filter paper to support the seeds and filled with 15 ml of Long Ashton nutrient solution.
- Cells were grown axenically in batch culture, in Bold's basal medium as described previously, under a constant light fluence.
- Reticulomyxa filosa cells are large, delicate syncytial networks and cannot be grown axenically.
Origin
1940s: from a- 'not' + Greek xenikos 'alien, strange' + -ic.