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Xylella fastidiosa
Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.) is a Gram-negative, xylem-limited plant-pathogenic bacterium spread by xylem sap-feeding insects, causing Pierce's disease, citrus variegated chlorosis, and olive quick decline syndrome, with 696 known host plant species and major EU outbreaks since 2013.
Xylem
Xylem is the vascular tissue conducting water and minerals from roots to leaves and forming wood. Key facts: tracheids and vessels, cohesion-tension sap ascent, cavitation and embolism, angiosperm-gymnosperm hydraulic trade-offs.
Xylem Inc.
Xylem Inc. is an American water technology company spun off from ITT Corporation in 2011 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., known for its $7.5 billion acquisition of Evoqua Water Technologies in 2023.
Xylene
Xylene, also called xilol or dimethylbenzene, is an aromatic hydrocarbon with three colorless isomers, produced from petroleum and used as a solvent, gasoline component, and feedstock for polyester plastics.
Xylenol
Xylenol is the name for any of six dimethylphenol isomers with formula C8H10O, valued as coal-tar antiseptics and as the monomer 2,6-xylenol for polyphenylene oxide plastics.
Xylenol orange
Xylenol orange is a sulfonephthalein dye bearing iminodiacetic acid groups, used as a metallochromic indicator in EDTA titrations of metals like zinc and bismuth and as a spectrophotometric reagent.
Xylidine
Xylidine, also known as aminodimethylbenzene or aminoxylene, is any of six isomeric dimethylanilines, pale-yellow liquids used chiefly in dyes and pharmaceuticals and formerly as a gasoline additive, toxic to the blood, liver, and kidneys.
Xylidinediamine
Xylidinediamine is the name applied to the diaminoxylene isomers, benzenediamines with two methyl groups on the ring; it differs from xylylenediamine, whose amino groups sit on methylene arms.
Xylitol
Xylitol, also known as birch sugar, is a five-carbon sugar alcohol used as a low-calorie sweetener in sugar-free gum and candy, and it is toxic to dogs.
Xylocopa aerata
Xylocopa aerata, the green or metallic green carpenter bee, is a large Australian native bee nesting in dead Banksia wood and grasstree stalks; extinct in Victoria and mainland South Australia, it survives on Kangaroo Island and in NSW, aided by artificial nests.
Xylokastro (Palairos)
Xylokastro (Palairos), also known as Kastri, is an ancient fort on a spur of Mt. Plakoto above the chapel of Agios Athanasios in Palairos, Aetolia-Acarnania, part of the fortified landscape of the ancient city of Palairos in western Acarnania.
Xylometazoline
Xylometazoline (Otrivin) is an imidazoline alpha-adrenergic nasal decongestant developed in the late 1940s, acting within 5–10 minutes for up to 10 hours; UK use now limited to 5 consecutive days due to rebound congestion risk.
Xylooligosaccharides
Xylooligosaccharides (XOS), xylose oligomers (DP 2–10, β-1,4-linked) from hemicellulose/xylan of corncobs and other lignocellulosic biomass; low-dose prebiotic fiber, bifidogenic, GRAS in the US and EFSA-assessed in the EU.
Xylophilus
Xylophilus (Willems et al. 1987) is a genus of gram-negative aerobic Betaproteobacteria in Burkholderiales, family Comamonadaceae, named friend of wood; type species X. ampelinus causes bacterial blight of grapevine, with X. rhododendri as second species.
Xylophone
Xylophone: a pitched percussion instrument of graduated wooden bars struck with mallets, from Greek xylon (wood) and phone (sound). Orchestral xylophone spans about F4–C8, uses quint-tuning, and entered the orchestra with Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre (1874).
Xylopia
Xylopia (Guinea pepper genus) is a pantropical genus of about 160–197 Annonaceae trees and shrubs, second largest in its family, of African origin, with dehiscent multi-carpellate fruits, beetle or thrips pollination, bird and monkey seed dispersal, and the spice species Xylopia aethiopica.
Xyloplax medusiformis
Xyloplax medusiformis, the medusiform sea daisy, is a tiny discoidal sea star from sunken wood at 1,057–1,208 m off New Zealand, described in 1986 as the founding species of the class Concentricycloidea and later reclassified as a progenetic pterasterid-related asteroid.
Xyloryctidae
Xyloryctidae Meyrick, 1890 is a worldwide family of Gelechioidea moths with over 1,200 species in 86 genera, subfamilies Xyloryctinae and Scythridinae, and wood- or leaf-shelter-boring larvae.
Xylose isomerase
Xylose isomerase (glucose isomerase, EC 5.3.1.5) is a metal-dependent bacterial enzyme converting D-xylose to D-xylulose and D-glucose to D-fructose; used industrially since 1967 for high fructose corn syrup and xylose bioethanol.
Xylosyltransferase
Xylosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.26; XT-I/XT-II, genes XYLT1/XYLT2) is a Golgi glycosyltransferase transferring xylose from UDP-xylose to serine residues of proteoglycan core proteins, the rate-limiting first step of glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis; mutations cause Desbuquois dysplasia type 2 and spondylo-ocular syndrome.
Xylulokinase
Xylulokinase (EC 2.7.1.17, xylulose kinase, human gene XYLB) phosphorylates D-xylulose with ATP to D-xylulose 5-phosphate, the final step of the glucuronate-xylulose pathway regulating lipogenesis.
Xylulose
Xylulose is a five-carbon ketopentose sugar with two forms: D-xylulose, an intermediate of the pentose phosphate pathway, and L-xylulose, excreted in urine in the benign condition pentosuria.
Xyniai
Xyniai (Ξυνίαι, Xyniae) was an ancient city in Achaea Phthiotis, western Othrys, Greece, near Lake Xynias in the Domokos plain; a polis of the Aetolian League known from a 214/3 BC border arbitration with Melitaia and Livy's account of the Roman wars.
Xyridaceae
Xyridaceae, the yellow-eyed-grass family, is a family of flowering plants in the monocot order Poales, with five genera and about 400 species, mostly in South America.
Xystodesmidae
Xystodesmidae, flat-backed millipedes (Polydesmida) established by Cook 1895; about 539 species in North American and East Asian temperate forests, Appalachian diversity center, colorful cyanide-producing, gonopod-based taxonomy.
XYY syndrome
XYY syndrome (47,XYY, Jacob's syndrome) is a male sex chromosome aneuploidy with an extra Y chromosome, occurring in about 1 in 1,000 newborns, causing tall stature, learning and speech difficulties, usually normal fertility, and frequent underdiagnosis.
XYZ Affair
The XYZ Affair, also known as the XYZ Crisis, was a 1797–1798 diplomatic incident in which French agents demanded bribes from American envoys, leading to the Quasi-War.
XYZ Robotics (星猿哲科技)
XYZ Robotics (星猿哲科技) is a Shanghai-based industrial robotics startup founded in 2018 that builds 3D vision-guided robots for truck loading, case picking, and mixed palletizing, with over USD 100 million raised.
Xyz Venture Capital
XYZ Venture Capital is a San Francisco early-stage venture capital firm founded by Ross Fubini in 2017, known for investing in Palantir-network companies such as Anduril.
Xyzzy (computing)
Xyzzy is a magic word from Will Crowther's 1975 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure, where typing it teleports the player, and it became a lasting hacker-culture Easter egg.