noun
definition
The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant
Examples of inoculum in a Sentence
Target plants are mechanically inoculated by rubbing leaves or by dipping tomato roots into diluted inoculum.
Alastair McCartney presented a paper on new technologies including molecular methods for detecting airborne inoculum.
The vegetation that characterizes IE is composed of a mixture of fibrin and platelets, containing a large inoculum of bacteria.
Once inside the trap, the male moths become contaminated with sufficient fungal inoculum to guarantee that they become infected.
Identify thresholds for control of primary inoculum required to prevent invasive spread.
Moreover, there were reports from the Netherlands and Scandinavia of circumstantial evidence of oospores providing soil-borne inoculum.
Alistair McCartney from Rothamsted assessed the methods being developed for detection of airborne pathogen inoculum.
The use of mixtures of pure bacterial cultures as an alternative inoculum to rumen fluid in the in vitro gas production technique.
The remaining inoculum was diluted and plated; inoculum concentration was determined to be 1 x 10 5 colony forming units per ml.
These crops will grow very quickly and are more likely to be challenged by blight inoculum earlier in their growth.
Susceptible and resistant responses to challenge with soil-borne virus inoculum were evident.