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Tilling

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TILLING
Novel solutions for high throughput reverse genetics.
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Eco-Tilling and Tilling
Optimized reagents and controls for perfect Eco-Tilling the 1st time.
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till

2  [til] ,
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–verb (used with object)
1. to labor, as by plowing or harrowing, upon (land) for the raising of crops; cultivate.
2. to plow.
–verb (used without object)
3. to cultivate the soil.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME tilen, OE tilian to strive after, get, till; c. D telen to breed, cultivate, G zielen to aim at
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TILLING
Novel solutions for high throughput reverse genetics.
www.licor.com/TILLING
Eco-Tilling and Tilling
Optimized reagents and controls for perfect Eco-Tilling the 1st time.
www.frontiergenomics.com
till 1   (tĭl)   
tr.v.   tilled, till·ing, tills
To prepare (land) for the raising of crops, as by plowing and harrowing; cultivate.

[Middle English tilen, from Old English tilian.]
till'a·ble adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

till  (prep.)
"until," O.E. til (Northumbrian), from O.N. til "to, until," from P.Gmc. *tilan (cf. Dan. til, O.Fris. til "to, till," Goth. tils "convenient," Ger. Ziel "limit, end, goal"). A common preposition in Scand., probably originally the accusative case of a noun now lost except for Icelandic tili "scope," the noun used to express aim, direction, purpose (e.g. aldrtili "death," lit. "end of life"). Also cf. Ger. Ziel "end, limit, point aimed at, goal," and compare till (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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