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BACTERIE SYMBIOTIQUE [4 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecosystems
CONT

Symbiotic fixation is the most powerful natural way of adding N to soil. Plants in the Legume family (beans, peanuts, clover, etc.) produce nodules in their roots that house bacteria from the genus Rhizobium. The bacteria turn atmospheric N into ammonium, while the Legume feeds sugar to the bacteria. Alder trees have a similar relationship with an actinomycete, Frankia. Some free-living bacteria also fix atmospheric nitrogen and convert it into useful forms in the soil.

OBS

symbiotic: [From "symbiosis" which means] the intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms in any of various mutually beneficial relationships.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écosystèmes
CONT

[...] la plante hôte(la légumineuse) offre un micro habitat exceptionnellement favorable à la bactérie tout en lui procurant des substrats carbonés provenant de la photosynthèse. En retour, la bactérie fixe l'azote atmosphérique(N2) et le fournit à la plante hôte sous forme assimilable NH3 [...] Cette association à bénéfice réciproque entre la légumineuse et les bactéries est appelée symbiose permettant une fixation symbiotique de l'azote de l'atmosphère.

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
CONT

... to engineer plant strains and/or their symbiotic bacteria to use atmospheric nitrogen as a source of nitrogen fertilizer.

OBS

symbiotic: Relating to, characterized by, living in, or resulting from a state of symbiosis.

OBS

symbiosis: The intimate living together of two dissimilar organisms in any of various mutually beneficial relationships.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
CONT

Chez les plantes de l’ordre des légumineuses, les bactéries symbiotiques vivant dans les racines assurent à la plante verte un apport d’aliments azotés qui supplée l’insuffisance de son absorption des nitrates.

OBS

symbiotique : Relatif à la symbiose; caractérisé par la symbiose

OBS

symbiose : Association durable et réciproquement profitable entre deux ou plusieurs organismes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Biotechnology
Key term(s)
  • non symbiotic bacteria
  • non-symbiotic bacteria

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Biotechnologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
  • Biotecnología
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Record 4 1988-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie

Spanish

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