ISPE Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Terminology

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Ethylene-Diamine Tetra-Acetic Acid (EDTA)

A chelating compound. In tissue culture it is used to keep nutrients, such as iron, bound in a form that leaves them still available to the plant but which prevents them from precipitating out.

Publication Source: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Publication Date: 1999

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