In the laboratory, bacteria are grown in test tubes and Petri dishes.
Gore and his co-authors did their experiments with populations of yeast growing in test tubes.
The eight cassava varieties growing in test plots are products of the IITA team's first round of plant breeding.
Dr. Bloch collaborated with scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina to test the oils on human breast cells grown in test tubes.
Dr. Johe said such cells, which can be grown in test tubes, might one day be implanted into the brain to rewire broken circuits.
The oil multinational hopes its improved trees, now growing in test sites in Uruguay and Chile, will prove a boon to the pulp and paper industry.
One such cross between a Colombian plant and a Nigerian variety has been aided by the markers identified by the Next Generation Cassava Breeding project researchers, and is currently growing in test plots near the IITA.
Dr. Martin and his colleagues, including Dr. Howard E. Gendelman, a senior scientist at the laboratory, exposed human cells growing in test tubes to the main regulatory element of the AIDS virus and then to a DNA virus.
In a study then, Canadian researchers found that use of the vitamin in doses larger than in the British study, but not much larger than the amounts some people take to ward off colds and the flu, damaged genetic material in three systems: bacterial cells, human cells grown in test tubes, and live mice.
The parent mycelium of P. herpotrichoides was grown in test tubes and was stored on a slant potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium, which conforms to the culture media used for cultivation of P. herpotrichoides [3].
