Meanings
adjectiveagrobacterial (comparative more agrobacterial, superlative most agrobacterial)
comparative more agrobacterial · superlative most agrobacterial
- bacteriologyRelating to agrobacteria.
Agrocin 84, having gained access to the A . tumefaciens C58 cytoplasm, is maturated into a toxic moiety (TM84) that inhibits agrobacterial growth.
2015 August 5, Abbas El Sahili et al., “A Pyranose-2-Phosphate Motif Is Responsible for Both Antibiotic Import and Quorum-Sensing Regulation in Agrobacterium tumefaciens”, in PLoS Pathogens, volume 11, →DOI
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵros
- Proto-Hellenic*agrós
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós)
- Ancient Greekβακτηρία (baktēría)
- Ancient Greekβακτήριον (baktḗrion)
- New Latinbactērium
- taxonomic nameAgrobacterium
- Englishagrobacterium
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishagrobacterial
From agrobacterium + -al.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Greek αγροβακτηρικός
- αγροβακτηρικός (agrovaktirikós)relating to agrobacteria
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