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Definition of Bacteroids
1. bacteroid [n] - See also: bacteroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteroids
Literary usage of Bacteroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"... the swollen, quiescent bacteroids gradually collapse and become depleted of
their nitrogenous substance; and finally the apparently empty husk remains ..."
2. Soils--their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"the growth of the excrescence is completed, the swollen, quiescent bacteroids
gradually collapse and become depleted of their nitrogenous substance; ..."
3. The Structure and Functions of Bacteria by Alfred G. Fischer (1900)
"19, e and/) that the term bacteroids is still applied. They are so-called 'involution
forms,'similar to those found among many other species of bacteria ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"identity of the bacteroids in the two cases. In some of the cultures made in the
summer of 1888 I infected the roots of the pea with bacteroids taken from ..."
5. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"Subsequent researches have plainly shown that the accumulation of nitrogen takes
place first of all inside the nodule, and that the bacteroids are the seat ..."
6. Biotechnology: Plant Nutrition: A Bibliography, January 1988-April 1993 by Janet Saunders (1994)
"Cytological studies of complementary halves of transversally sectioned mature
nodules confirmed that type 4 bacteroids were always observed in the half of ..."
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