Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various rod-shaped, aerobic, nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the genus Azotobacter, typically found in soil and water.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We have spent all of 1992 studying (? asospirilum), because up to now, we have not found a kind of azotobacter that can help in fertilizing sugarcane.
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Hope you do come up with something on azotobacter as anne blythe mentioned...yup,i'm working on the same project as her...
Clostridium difficile Emma Lurie 2007
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You can see the enormous difference in growth between those to which azotobacter was applied and those to which it was not applied.
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Of course, azotobacter does not supply all the nitrogen needed by the rice, but it does supply a considerable part.
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So all the vegetables here in Havana Province and other places have been grown with azotobacter.
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Of course, it is better if you can give them a little nitrogen because the azotobacter is not going to produce all the nitrogen, but the azotobacter saves at least 30 percent of the nitrogen.
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Not more than two weeks went by, or if I remember correctly not even three weeks went by from the time we had the news and the INIFAT people told us about azotobacter, that it could supply some of the nitrogen the rice crop needs, and they were already producing it on a large scale.
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In less than 72 hours, we had made the necessary arrangements to produce 1 million liters of azotobacter.
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At that time they began to produce azotobacter in one of the fermenters that was not being used, in Santa
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That is why for us, the bacteria that was mentioned here-the azotobacter-is extremely important.
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