Claim · model-written summary
The method failed to distinguish between individual bacteria and aggregates.
- Taxon
- Trifolium repens
Trifolium repenst0 - Outcome
- distinguish between individual bacteria and any aggregatese1
- Qualifier
- failed to distinguishe1
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Verbatim
t0“Association of Rhizobium Strains with Roots of Trifolium repens”
e1“The method also failed to distinguish between individual bacteria and any aggregates that may be present”
Title
Association of Rhizobium Strains with Roots of Trifolium repens
Jane Badenoch-Jones; David J. Flanders; Barry G. Rolfe Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1985. doi:10.1128/aem.49.6.1511-1520.1985
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Bacteria associated with individual clover root hairs varied largely in number.
- Method / resource Reproducibility of results from the radiolabeling method was satisfactory.
- Method / resource The radiolabeling method had a lack of sensitivity and a failure to distinguish attached bacteria compared with direct counting by phase-contrast microscopy.
- Observation Binding of R. trifolii to clover roots showed no indication of specificity.
- Intervention effect 2-Deoxy-d-glucose did not have a major inhibitory effect on rhizobial attachment to the clover root.
- Mechanism Lectin cross-bridging is not an obligatory step in the initiation of infection, though it may occur under some conditions.
- Association The presence or absence of the symbiotic plasmid was not correlated with bacterial adherence to the host plant root.
- Mechanism Binding of rhizobia to the legume root is not the basis of host specificity.