rhizobium in English

noun

1

a nitrogen-fixing bacterium that is common in the soil, especially in the root nodules of leguminous plants.

In an exciting paper, Fox describes how estrogen signals between plants and their symbiotic rhizobium soil bacteria can be disrupted by agricultural chemicals.

Use "rhizobium" in a sentence

1. During the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis, bacteria enter the cells of host plants and differentiate into nitrogen-fixing Bacteroids

2. Bacteroid: Any of various bacteria, especially those of the genus Rhizobium, that carry out nitrogen fixation in the root nodules of leguminous plants and often change markedly in …

3. Definition of Bacteroid : an irregularly shaped form of a nitrogen-fixing bacterium (such as a rhizobium) found especially in root nodules of legumes First Known Use of Bacteroid 1878, in the meaning defined above

4. In pouch-grown seedlings, plants were inoculated with either Rhizobium alone or in combination with Azospirillum or applied together with a flavonoid, luteolin (a nodulation gene inducer), or with a cytokinin, benzyl adenine.

5. Buckbrush roots have nodules that host nitrogen-fixing bacteria (Rhizobium) Bacteria capture nitrogen gas (N2) from the air (fixing it) and convert it into nitrogen compounds that plants can use Host plant shares minerals and carbohydrates produced by photosynthesis, with the bacteria

6. The main aims of our work were comparative studies of the phase state and structure of the lipid bilayer of the outer membrane (OM) of the cells of four free-living rhizobium strains and also of the influence of the composition of symbiotic pairs on the state and structure of the outer membrane of Bacteroids (Bacteroid membrane, BM) and PBM, that forms the symbiosomes inside the plant cell.