NOUN
- a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
ADJECTIVE
- resembling bacteria
How To Use bacteroid In A Sentence
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- These have to pass several cell layers to reach cells infected with Rhizobium bacteroids.
- Nodulated plants utilize both combined nitrogen absorbed by the roots and nitrogen fixed by the bacteroids in the root nodules.
- Khoruts published a study in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2009 that showed a single infusion of feces reversed the absence of bacteroides -- a group of bacteria vital to the body's ability to withstand infections with C.difficile. Reuters: Top News
- Closer to the point of attachment to the root, membrane-bound compartments containing rhizobia are released into plant cells where the rhizobia differentiate into bacteroids, the form capable of fixing N 2.
- Khoruts published a study in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2009 that showed a single infusion of feces reversed the absence of bacteroides -- a group of bacteria vital to the body's ability to withstand infections with C.difficile. Reuters: Top News
- Ammonia is exported from the bacteroids into the plant cell cytosol where it is assimilated, and directed to the synthesis of amino acids and/or ureides for subsequent export from the nodule.
- Most organisms are of bowel origin, with Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, bacteroides, enterococci, anaerobic streptococci, and microaerophilic streptococci being most common.
- The bacterium, Bacteroides plebeius, lives in the human gut, along with trillions of other microbes.
- One mechanism that may increase benefits to relatives is found in strains whose bacteroids convert plant metabolites to rhizopines-compounds that cannot be re-assimilated by the plant nor used by unrelated soil bacteria.