Meaning of antibiosis in English:
antibiosis
noun
mass nounBiologyAn antagonistic association between two organisms (especially microorganisms), in which one is adversely affected.
Compare with symbiosis‘The plates were incubated at 28°C and observed for antibiosis after 24 hours in case of yeasts and 96 hours in case of moulds.’- ‘The types of resistance bred into resistant hybrids are ‘tolerance’ and ‘antibiosis.’’
- ‘The direct mechanisms involved in this protective effect include competition, antibiosis, and mycoparasitism.’
- ‘Antibiosis is often caused by the production of toxic chemicals by the plant.’
- ‘An example of this process, called antibiosis, is provided by marigold roots, which release chemicals that are toxic to several species of fungi.’
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