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UK
/ɹaɪzˈəʊbiəm/
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NOUN
- the type genus of Rhizobiaceae; usually occur in the root nodules of legumes; can fix atmospheric oxygen
How To Use Rhizobium In A Sentence
- The seed of nitrogen fixing trees should be treated with Rhizobium inoculum after scarification and prior to sowing. Chapter 4
- The primary invasion site of Rhizobium is root hair of the plant.
- In an exciting paper, Fox describes how estrogen signals between plants and their symbiotic rhizobium soil bacteria can be disrupted by agricultural chemicals.
- RHIZOBIA: A. auriculiformis is a promiscuous host nodulated by a wide range of Rhizobium strains and has a good chance of being nodulated in soils with low Rhizobium populations (Roughley, 1987). Chapter 8
- The transformed roots are morphologically indistinguishable from untransformed roots and, in the case of legumes, they can be nodulated by Rhizobium bacteria and infected by mycorrhizal fungi.
- These have to pass several cell layers to reach cells infected with Rhizobium bacteroids.
- Until recently, it was difficult to procure just the right rhizobium or mycorrhiza for a particular tree species and site. Chapter 5
- The seed treatment fungicides with the highest toxicity level to Rhizobium inoculants are captan and thiram.
- Many garden crops in the legume family, such as cowpea, tepary bean, fava bean, African locust bean, and carob, fix nitrogen in root nodules inhabited by rhizobia, bacteria of the genus Rhizobium. 5. How plants live and grow
- Acacia koa is nodulated by the slow-growing Bradyrhizobium spp. common in tropical soils. Chapter 2