inoculum

Converse of object

• detect: Alastair McCartney presented a paper on new technologies including molecular methods for detecting airborne inoculum.
• contain: The vegetation that characterizes IE is composed of a mixture of fibrin and platelets, containing a large inoculum of bacteria.
• require: Identify thresholds for control of primary inoculum required to prevent invasive spread.

Adjective modifier

• fungal: Once inside the trap, the male moths become contaminated with sufficient fungal inoculum to guarantee that they become infected.
• primary: Identify thresholds for control of primary inoculum required to prevent invasive spread.
• soil-borne: Moreover, there were reports from the Netherlands and Scandinavia of circumstantial evidence of oospores providing soil-borne inoculum.
• airborne: Alistair McCartney from Rothamsted assessed the methods being developed for detection of airborne pathogen inoculum.
• alternative: The use of mixtures of pure bacterial cultures as an alternative inoculum to rumen fluid in the in vitro gas production technique.

Modifies a noun

• level: TL comments that the soil inoculum levels thought to trigger infection are higher than found in the UK.
• production: Areas involved include molecular biology and inoculum production, formulation and application procedures.
• source: Chili pepper production often overlaps with cotton in Pakistan and might serve as an important inoculum source.
• concentration: The remaining inoculum was diluted and plated; inoculum concentration was determined to be 1 x 10 5 colony forming units per ml.
• pressure: The effect of powdery mildew inoculum pressure and fertilizer level on disease tolerance in spring barley.
• potential: The inoculum potential of P. brassicae is thereby diminished.

Noun used with modifier

• soil: TL comments that the soil inoculum levels thought to trigger infection are higher than found in the UK.
• blight: These crops will grow very quickly and are more likely to be challenged by blight inoculum earlier in their growth.
• pathogen: Alistair McCartney from Rothamsted assessed the methods being developed for detection of airborne pathogen inoculum.
• virus: Susceptible and resistant responses to challenge with soil-borne virus inoculum were evident.

Preposition: in

• soil: These crops can thus beneficially be used in the rotation to reduce the inoculum in the soil.

Preposition: of

• fungus: An inoculum of the fungus Phomopsis convolvulus has caused severe damage to field bindweed plants at all growth stages.